QUESTIONS FOR IVORY TOWERS TO ASK…AND ANSWER

1. Why, in today’s colleges and universities, doesn’t every student, in conjunction with one or more advisers, design their own major?  Departments would exist to offer courses in a particular specialty, and might suggest a major track, but most students would select “majors” based on the ideas and skills they are interested in pondering and understanding.
   
   
2. Students today can simply look up most of the terminology and the information that used to be taught in a course. Why shouldn’t every teacher understand that because of new digital technologies, projects and concepts can be much more complex and much less like the paper-and-pencil era of long ago?
   
   
3. Are professors discussing with students terms and ideas such as wisdom, lifelong learning, and the WOW factor?
   
   
4. Have university major programs changed their curriculum within the last three years, and have they put in place systems to constantly change and update that curriculum with more rapidly changing ideas and practices?
   
   
5. Creative learning spaces spark creative thinking. Is higher education rethinking the design of classrooms to support modern-day ideas and new ways of teacher-student and student-student interactions?