[From Heather Hayton] A Washington Post blog post by Cecilia Gaposchkin on how the historical roots of liberal arts education makes it not just relevant but essential today. The article title isn’t really what it’s about, but it’s a good read. Why the tech world highly values a liberal arts degree
A number of faculty members have encouraged the faculty to engage directly with the demands and concerns raised by the student group, Integrity for Guilford. Many faculty members are working in different areas and in different ways to address these issues, and some faculty felt strongly that the faculty should respond directly to students. The following response …
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Here is the most recent report from the Enrollment division on the incoming first-year class. The data set we’ve been watching is below. After that, we have a second table with a comparison on several statistics between the incoming 2016 first-years and the group which deposited in 2015. Finally, we have a look at some more detailed demographic information. Arlene writes: …
At the suggestion of Clerk’s members, we will be having a special called Clerk’s meeting on Tuesday to address issues raised at the April 27th faculty meeting. Here is our agenda outline: Discuss the issues brought forth in the faculty meeting and identify other related problems on campus Identify institutional environmental and structural changes we need …
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Here is the latest enrollment report as of May 2, one day after the national May 1 deadline for students to commit to the college of their choice. As you can see below, we have more students deposited (391) than any year in the past three. That is a very big deal for us. This number …
Please add your thanks and comments for Community Senate for their thoughtful gift of chair massages at our last faculty lunch. We will pass these along with our thank-you card.
Here are updated numbers as of April 25th. Arlene writes: Not much to say about this week’s numbers. Of course, with the national notification date being May 1 our team is actively calling those students who have not made a decision one way or the other, answering any last minute questions, connecting them with the …
Feel free to add comments, questions, suggestions, and feedback for the April 27 faculty meeting. You may post anonymously if you wish.
[From Kathryn Shields] Here’s a link to this year’s student projects from stanford’s XD program: http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs194h/2016/wi/projects.html And here’s a link to stanford’s popular “bootcamp bootleg” describing their d-school methodology used in/for a wide range of projects: https://dschool.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BootcampBootleg2010v2SLIM.pdf
[From Mark Dixon] Example #1: User Design in nonprofit (suggested by alumni Wendy Lam who works in UD for UNICEF): Within experience design, there is a set of methodologies and research methods that focus on the needs of people. It’s commonly called human-centered design or ethnographic research. That research could be highly technical or ethnographic depending …