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Fall and rise of colleges in the decade of the 2030s
a story of restoration and a picture of hope
A tip of the hat to Pan Vera https://lifeserving.com for his editorial support
A fragment from a larger re-making colleges section of a work-in-progress, Stories of Restoration for SpaceShip Earth; or, Thank God We Got Rid of the Men. A dozen other DRAFT fragments posted on Medium, mostly from the beginning of project.
For reasons described in earlier articles [these not yet online], in 2029 the imminent future of colleges, as a national institution, was very much in doubt. Briefly, it was not only student debt, irrelevance of college courses to available jobs after college. It was also spiking suicide rates in high school and college age students. Colleges as an institution were “circling the drain.”
What could be done? What should be done? What’s working we should leave as-is?
Consulting with holistic education experts, activity quickly focussed around remaking-re-booting these areas:
- Re-writing college Humanities core course content. Males had boxed Humanities into the study of what males had thought and done in the past. Few Humanities courses and few professors stimulated student work of insight into their own humanness and how to organize and flow…
