My history in this group, DKU, has been as a caretaker and happened only because I just tried to carry this group over from DK3-DK4, and now that we’re in DK5, perhaps there are some faculty, ex-faculty. researchers, or interested fellow travelers who may wish to be connected, as others who perhaps got lost as other DK fractures occurred like defections to FDL, caucus99, etc.
SO THIS IS A CALL FOR PARTICIPATION BECAUSE ONE HASN’T HAPPENED IN YEARS so please send kosmail if you’re interested
No, I don’t have an interest in being a boss of this... (Kos would be our ex officio Chancellor/President anyway), I just hope that like-minded retired, employed, unemployed, and underemployed faculty might be interested in networking and participating in what could be some interesting projects…
for example some sample areas but not an exhaustive list:
- build an MOOC or LMS for STEM fields or social analysis that could be useful to explain TPP or the emerging ethno-nationalism in the US, or
- build course or teach-in materials in advance of the next US war, climate denialism, or the next OWS-style action or
- develop anti-capitalist or anti-neoliberal teaching materials that explain the next financial collapse or
- provide more survival materials for undergraduates who are fearful of whitelash stupidity on their campuses or
- bringing some useful clearinghouse career development resources for the expected personnel purges in higher education and strategies including labor activism, LGBTQ safe space, or POC, or
- new technologies or skills, teaching coding, linux advice, software reviews, and suggestions, etc. or
- all higher-ed fields credit/non-credit teaching are welcome, if you have composition, math, welding skills, CNC, agriculture, science/technology, medicine, allied health etc… please come on by… or
- whatever you want to bring to the table, test out some curriculum ideas, suggest new teaching approaches, or
- commiserate on local campus problems that some other groups like DK’s Teacher’s Lounge have considered that’s away from the usual higher-ed feeding frenzy at CHE or IHE
- note that one hopes that membership will be (more democratic) and collegial even, with everyone getting at least editor status in order to maximize growth...
- so I’ll probably repeat this call daily for a week to see whether there’s enough of an interest… (the week’s almost at an end)
So perhaps you’e in an existing DK working group and would like to add participants or at least an interested group of interested academics, please cross-post or add us to your blogroll.
Self-organizing groups appear to form around the eternal (that is, around things that persist across human experience, such as love, friendship, laughter, joy, fellowship, and passion) and can, therefore, themselves be very long lasting. Within them, self-organizing work groups naturally form to get specific work-of-the-moment done. Responding to the needs of the moment, those who most urgently feel the need come together, anticipate the need on behalf of the group, and then do the work that needs to get done. When that work is accomplished, the work group dissolves as quickly as it formed.
1.- To delve further and innovate the mechanisms for participation (with its inherent risks) to reduce the “noise” of assemblies without abandoning the idea of shared leadership
2.- To abandon participative practices in favor of more vertical (hierarchal) mechanisms, to control inefficiencies and be more agile.
Monday, Nov 21, 2016 · 2:41:24 PM +00:00
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annieli
Thanks to those who have responded so far … hopefully this will be a critical mass going forward to collect and network what will be important work as actual, (non-Trump U.) higher education will be challenged in the coming months/years. Probably will begin with a weekly Open Thread, but if someone with a CHE subscription wants to cull the less stupid articles, that might be a place to start… my favorite series would be what used to be a monthly outrage reported in CHE about college/university art galleries under fire for community obscenity because well...nudes,...religion… censorship, etc. because there just can’t be enough First Amendment