Thinking About the Best Futures For---

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Thinking About the Best Futures For---

• A Keynote Speech by
• David G. Brown, Wake Forest University
• October 16, 2000

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Impressive!

• Focus Upon STUDENTS

75 Completion
Very Few Places in the Country are your equal!
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Thought Starters from BrownTechnology is

• Reviving COMMUNITY
• Altering STUDENT EXPECTATIONS
• Providing NEW OPTIONS for Faculty
• Enabling NEW CURRICULA
• Transforming COLLEGES

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Whats Special about Berkeley College

• Why do students come to Berkeley?
• Why do faculty stay at Berkeley?
• Why do you continue to work at Berkeley?
• What is the Berkeley Difference?
• WRITE IT DOWN!

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Ways of Thinking About Presidential Campaigns and
Debates A First Year Seminar Introducing Students
to the Liberal Arts
15 Freshmen Meet twice per week All with open
laptops
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Computers Enhance My Teaching and/or Learning
Via--
Presentations Better--20
More Opportunities to Practice Analyze--35
More Access to Source Materials via Internet--43
More Communication with Faculty Colleagues,
Classmates, and Between Faculty and Students--87
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Computers allow people----

• to belong to more communities
• to be more actively engaged in each community
• with more people
• over more miles
• for more months and years
• TO BE MORE COLLABORATIVE

ICCEL -- Wake Forest University, 2000
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Technology is reviving redefining Community.

• Who is a neighbor? A potential client? A
  reference? A colleague? A teacher?
• How can I help build a community of trust
  interaction that is closely associated with
  Berkeley College?

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Technology is alteringstudent expectations

• Immediacy
• Always in Touch
• Interactivity
• Open Information
• Shared Authority and Second Opinions
• Multi-Tasking Channel Changing
• Trial and Error (Nintendo)

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Technology is providing New Options to Faculty
and Staff

• Continuous Interaction
• Collaboration
• Teaming
• Learning Teams
• Guiding, not Telling
• Student Management Monitoring
• Partners from Real World
• Second Opinions. Open Information

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Technology is enabling New Curricula

• The 80-20 Rule
• Customized Textbooks Manuals
• Learning Cohorts Communities
• The Math Emporium Model
• The Visual Professions
• Information Fluency
• Willingness Capacity for Renewal

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Technology is transformingthe college

• Databases Center on Student (My.Yahoo)
• Entrepreneurship Thrives (fleet of foot)
• Confederations and Mergers Emerge
• Interinstitutional Trading Expands
• Brokers Multiply
• Bricks Mortar Stay

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What should Berkeley do about it?

• What should YOU do about it?

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Act Now
-Build Identity and Loyalty -Build Communities
of Learners Link All Programs to
Participation in and Access to Those
Communities -Expand and Enrich Co-Curricular
Programs (e.g. placement services
alumni-mail-forwarding) -Choose Nurture A Few
Areas For Worldwide Prominence -Maintain Aura of
Impartiality Rationality -Rejoice in the
Flexibility Survivability of Colleges
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Act Now
-Affirm as a Community that All Teaching May
Proceed on the Assumption That All Students Have
Internet Access -Assure Robust Communication
Networks -Aim for 95 of Faculty Use of CEL by
Voluntary Means -Adopt Support a Preferred
Laptop, CMS, Software -Budget for Electronic
Databases -Avoid dumbing down teaching and
administrative systems
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Act Now (Your Turn)Whats Next?
--Whats Special about Berkeley? What do you do
better than almost anyone else? Where is your
comparative advantage? What did you write
earlier? --In this new and emerging world of
fuller communication revival of community, how
can Berkeley deploy these new tools in order to
extend its comparative advantage (gardening
metaphor)? --Whats your next step toward your
objective?
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Berkeley Colleges Future Rests With Recognizing
that Technology is

• Reviving COMMUNITY
• Altering STUDENT EXPECTATIONS
• Providing NEW OPTIONS for Faculty
• Enabling NEW CURRICULA
• Transforming COLLEGES

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The Good Newsfor Higher Education

• Colleges and Universities adapt!
• 67/74 oldest institutions are universities!
• Adapting is our business! Adapt we will!

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The Good Newsfor Berkeley College

• Responsive to Rapid Change
• Reflective of Student Needs Desires
• Accountable to High Completion Rates
• Partner Friendly
• Diverse Confederation

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David G. BrownWake Forest UniversityWinston-Sale
m, N.C. 27109336-758-4878email
brown_at_wfu.eduhttp//www.wfu.edu/brownfax
336-758-4875
ICCEL -- Wake Forest University, 2000