How much different things may have been if the state, and not the Church, had been the progenitor and supporter of the early university?

How might education have been different if it came out of itself (or something like curiosity or even society in general) without the influences on either church or state?

Does Your Local Museum or University Still Have Native American Remains?<br /> by Ash Ngu, Andrea Suozzo (ProPublica)

There are now enough colleges and universities looking into the overlap of their own histories and that of slavery and its effects on their development that there is now a consortium of them (the Universities Studying Slavery (USS)) and two day long conference.

Rappelle certains points du rapport Éduquer au numérique.

Puis, lien possible aux collègues des collèges, via Una Daly (CCCOER): https://hyp.is/LydNYEfpEey9gTODlHd8XQ/oer.pressbooks.pub/oeg2021/chapter/english/

https://nscresearchcenter.org/stay-informed/

https://www.studentclearinghouse.org/nscblog/undergraduate-enrollment-drops-nearly-8-and-community-colleges-decline-15-since-fall-2019/

“Students are graduating into a brutal job market.”

The entreprecariat is designed for learned helplessness (social: individualism), trained incapacities (economic: specialization), and bureaucratic intransigence (political: authoritarianism).

The Design Problem

Three diagrams will explain the lack of social engagement in design. If (in Figure 1) we equate the triangle with a design problem, we readily see that industry and its designers are concerned only with the tiny top portion, without addressing themselves to real needs.

(Design for the Real World, 2019. Page 57.)

The other two figures merely change the caption for the figure.

• Figure 1: The Design Problem
• Figure 2: A Country
• Figure 3: The World

This is important research to do so as not to conveniently forget the past. If all were equal today, that would have happened as the proper outcome of proactive, widespread and impactful recognition of the injustice of the past. Inequality has persisted, transmuted into structural inequality, especially manifesting in economic legacy of inherited wealth. It could be interpreted as unconducive for fundraising, but so can opaqueness of a proactive strategy.

In this way, the past seeps into the present. This is a literal example of the legacy of structural inequality.

The BMJ. ‘How Universities Can Make Re-Opening Safer in the Autumn’, 18 August 2021. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/18/how-universities-can-make-re-opening-safer-in-the-autumn/.

Another important point. Our college-based network is leading some OER initiatives, these days. Partly because our needs are quite specific. Most of the OER scene focuses on universities (or merges colleges and universities, since they are very similar in some contexts).

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @DrBrookeRogers: Universities and colleges face Covid funding shortfalls https://t.co/v2s0dVETBa’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 24 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1323575049425768448

Universities and colleges face Covid funding shortfalls. (2020, November 3). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/education-54780790

Fielding. S. (2020) UK universities' promise of face-to-face teaching is risking academics' health. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/22/uk-universities-are-risking-staff-health-by-promising-students-in-person-teaching

Fazackerley, Anna. ‘UK Universities Putting Finances above Student Safety, Expert Warns’. The Guardian, 1 August 2020, sec. Education. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/01/uk-universities-putting-finances-above-student-safety-expert-warns.

Anderson, Stuart. ‘New International Students To U.S. May Hit Post-WW2 Low’. Forbes. Accessed 16 July 2020. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/07/13/new-international-students-to-us-may-hit-post-ww2-low/.

St. Andrews is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, 30 miles northeast of Edinburgh. It is home to the University of St Andrews, the third oldest university in the English-speaking world.

Founded in 1472 in Bavaria, about 400 miles northeast of Geneva, this university became a leading center of scientific learning in the eighteenth century; the emergence of the Illuminati in 1776 also identified the university with the radical enlightenment.

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The belief that sexism is at the root of fascism, although well founded, causes hyperactivists to censor scientists.

Seriously? How have I never heard about them. Too much...

What the university has become...

p. 77 Description of Rochdale in 1967 (i.e. before the tower went up)

At the moment there are some 30 full-time members of the college, who come from all over North America and range from Ph.D.'s to high school dropouts. They are much younger than a cross-section of the university, but somewhat older than a cross-section of undergraduates. There are another 50-200 part-time participants, mostly students or teachers at degree-granting institutions in Toronto. We occupy six rented houses this year; next fall we'll move into an 18-storey building which is under construction at the corner of Huron and Bloor. It will house 850 residents, who will own and operate the building cooperatively; it will also become a focal point for the college's external members. It is up to each member to determine the extent, form, and content of his participation in the college's educational life--including, in a number of cases, none at all.

p.74 Summarises the place of the university/multiversity

(1) The multiversity is a place where great thought and great research are often possible.

(2) The multiversity is a place from which great contributions can often be made to society.

(3) The multiversity is a place in which the claims of institutional continuity and efficiency come to head-on collision with its educational aims; the latter are normally wiped off the map.

(4) The multiversity is a place in which the education of the vast majority ranges from the mediocre to the pernicious. This fact creates new educational norms, which become positive deterrents to the education of any who wish to go beyond the majority. It is for these students -- the bright ones, the original or independent ones, the ones who care deeply --that the university is such bad news. It is in the crazy position of obstructing their education.

(5) Education at the multiversity is post-secondary, encouraging the transfer of discrete units of information and theory, rather than liberal, encouraging the contemplation of energizing form in what a student comes to know. And the system of lectures, essays and exams, and the root assumptions of thousands of the university's members, canonize the post-secondary version of education. It is possible to go beyond it, but only by radically dissenting from the university. For the twenty-year-old who does not know what he is dissenting in favour of, this is either very isolating or very undermining.

The Bullshit factor! Interesting argument that the faculty realise but don't call the students on it. But I wonder. It can also be a question of effort: if you want to bullshit your way through college, who am I to stop you? As a rule, I'm generally not interested in those students, as opposed to either the ones who are doing great work or poor work but are not BSers.

The education sector is witnessing the immense boom in the UK. It has various elements like schools, universities, institutions and nowadays the tutoring classes have been increased tremendously. It all creates the strong educational structure within the UK. The demand for the tuitions is increasing.http://blog.selectmytutor.co.uk/demand-for-extra-tuition-is-rising-as-britishers-are-likely-to-pay-high/

Don’t know what the stats are for “non-profit universities and colleges” but it does feel like an increasing portion of their budgets go to marketing, advertising, PR, and strategic positioning (at least in the United States and Canada).

prove the value of a text by asserting the holiness of its author.

This is ironically what T&P committees do.

Bok on how universities compete.

Sources of competition among universities

Student-driven beginning for universities.

As Steven Hill of HEFCE recently suggested, it might be far better for UK institutions to reject these tables: "What if all UK institutions made a stand against global rankings, and stopped using them for promotional purposes? The reputation of the UK’s higher education sector would stand firm, and a really strong signal would be sent to the rest of the world. Not drifting, but steering purposely through the metric tide." http://blog.hefce.ac.uk/2015/07/08/the-metrics-dilemma/