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In global, digital, distributed, and complex settings, a networked model of learning and knowledge is critical. Most disciplines in society have become too specialized to function in isolation. Global problems are too intractable to be tackled by any structure other than networks.

George Siemens
Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute, Alberta, Canada

- anytime, anywhere access to information - multiple careers in a lifetime - continuous learning

Today the Brain Science Program consists almost everything of researchers in the cognitive sciences, neuroscience, computer science, biology, medicine, psychology, psychiatry, physics, and mathematics . . . The researchers are not quite sure when something interesting will happen, but if they keep talking, they know that something eventually will.

Leon Cooper Columbia University Nobel Prize in Physics

We are witnessing a new way of working developing before our eyes.

The Triangle Fire (2005) The World in a Box: Containerization (2011)

Today, breadth, cultural knowledge and sensitivity, flexibility, the ability to continually learn, grow and reinvent, technical skills, as well as drive and passion, define the road to success.

Richard A. Greenwald Drew University October 1, 2010

The new kind of work will reward those who master:

Globalization is shipping white-collar work overseas, and powerful technologies are eliminating certain kinds of work altogether.

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We held a series of meetings with agriculture, engineering, entertainment, biotech, teacher education, criminal justice, and tourism and hospitality.

Charles B. Reed February 25, 2008

Come No matter the industry, * we found ready to work the first day * Communicate and think critically similarities in the skills they * Work in teams wanted from our graduates: * Use technology * multiple and * Speak Come ready to languages work the first day * and communicate globally * Think Communicate and think critically * Work in teams * Use technology * Speak multiple languages and * Think and communicate globally

Europes early universities were founded in the a. fifth century.

b. twelfth century.
c. fourteenth century. d. sixteenth century.

In universities, use of the Carnegie unit or credit hour dates from a. the 1860s. b. the 1880s.

c. the 1910s.
d. the 1930s.

Dietrich Gerhard, 1937

One of the most serious evils Bologna University of American education in 1100 A.D.and college is counting school by courses.

SFO Marriott right now

Abbott Lawrence Lowell President, Harvard University 1917

Once a credit was earned, it was as credit hour safe as anything in the world. It would be deposited and indelibly c. recorded 1910 in the registrars saving bank, while the substance of the course could be, if one wished, happily forgotten.

Fall Enrollments in U.S. Degree-granting Institutions

source: National Center for Education Statistics

1999 1869 1909 1949 1979 11,569,899 14,791,224 2,659,021 355,213 52,286 1910s credit hour
today 20 million+

1970 top 26%

enrollment rates of 18- to 24-year-olds in degree-granting institutions

Source: National Center for Education Statistics

whom we teach
2009 top 41%
34% 2009

enrollment by Hispanics, African-Americans, and Asians: 15% 1976 19% 1990

enrollment by students eligible for financial aid:

30% 46% 66% 2009

1976

1990

46% all students

23% all students

Six-year graduation rates for full-time firsttime freshmen

40%

Six-year transfer rates among degree seekers

14%

students of color
Source: Education Trust, cited in the CSU Graduation Initiative

students of color
Source: Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy, cited in the CCC Student Success Task Force

We already know what works for at-risk students.

Act Locally
We know that.

Its clear and integrated academic programs, supplemental instruction and support, and wraparound services.

Bryant Marks Executive Director Morehouse Research Institute Morehouse College

So then if we still have problems, then thats an educator problem, not a student problem.

Chico
Town Hall Meeting
2010 2009 2008 2007 2006

First-Year Persistence
first-time full-time freshmen

86% 84%

Thia Wolf First-Year Experience

91% 93%
with Town Hall Meeting

80% 74%
white students students of color

85% 80%
William Loker Dean, Undergraduate Education
Source: Institutional Research, CSU Chico

live webcast Creating Town Hall Meetings Wednesday, December 4, 2013 11:45-1:00 details pending: calstate.edu/engage

The Campus as a

Living Lab

project premises: collaboration: CSU with CCC and local business Academic Affairs/ASCSU with Business and Finance 2013-14 implementation longer term NSF backing

oral communication
cohort-based

written communication

quantitative reasoning

critical thinking

learning community
peer mentoring lifelong learning off-campus learning life science arts or humanities social science

physical science

arts or humanities

social science

science laboratory

arts or humanities

social science

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