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- What is the university for? What does a good city needs →arts scene, art spaces, music
- A more unified focused whole vision for the university
- Centrality of General Education a patient 4 year engagement with students to appreciate the arts and links to community
- Talk about optimizing class sizes for according to pedagogy, not a specific size
- Undergraduate liberal arts and sciences university model needs better understandingDefining what a “liberal education” means
- Change maker mapping process →weaving social change into the document
- Need organizational structure to support general education; make it easier to be part of liberal education
- Reinforce the importance of gen ed to students
- Challenge of transferability means that gen ed may be undervalued
- Who do we serve? What about our history as a ‘second opportunity’ institution?
- Strong statement of support for liberal education and point to the history of MRC/MRU
- What does the “best undergraduate university” mean?
- Need to identify the space of this and its unique features
- “University of the people” — look at the SFU model; mature student policies, focused on inter-disciplinarity; full year courses; community linkage
- Note the links to the community already; build on existing engagement
- Currie Barracks will be growing to 10,000 people over the long run—keep this in mind
- Chance to re-appropriate the campus space to respond to academic needs
- Brand recognition?
- Sense of mission needs to be re established
- Need to invest in full-time faculty vs contract faculty → too much precarious work
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