Maybe an Aside ... but Collaobration is sorely needed these days in all domains
While the powers that were try to be, the rest of us clearly seeing potential solutions which cannot be heard in the corridors rapidly clearing of power ... here's a thot from Nerd Girl
She's a post-doc at UBC writing a weekly Globe column
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Crisis, What Crisis? hints on the road to Victory
In the fall of 2009 I think the University as we have known it will be in crisis because I cannot believe that parents and grandparents will sacrifice their much reduced retirements to send Billy or Barbie who don't want to be there to university for an education that means nothing in terms of being able to DO something ... at that point, it would be students who would demand a shift towards excellence and away from the present business models ... the current generation of academics will be viewed as having failed and CHANGE will come ... we may be called upon to make comments at that time, having seen the inside of the belly of the beast ... by then we will have seen workers and unions exchanging money for quality of jobs and life, sustainability at many levels, etc. We are going to see massive change, once the money/numbers game fails spectacularly ... the once sold-out souls are not yet dead and will awaken ... maybe basic goodness will have its day.
In the fall of 2009 I think the University as we have known it will be in crisis because I cannot believe that parents and grandparents will sacrifice their much reduced retirements to send Billy or Barbie who don't want to be there to university for an education that means nothing in terms of being able to DO something ... at that point, it would be students who would demand a shift towards excellence and away from the present business models ... the current generation of academics will be viewed as having failed and CHANGE will come ... we may be called upon to make comments at that time, having seen the inside of the belly of the beast ... by then we will have seen workers and unions exchanging money for quality of jobs and life, sustainability at many levels, etc. We are going to see massive change, once the money/numbers game fails spectacularly ... the once sold-out souls are not yet dead and will awaken ... maybe basic goodness will have its day.
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