January 8, 2021
Guest Futurist: Afrofuturist Dr Lonny Brooks
January 8th we are thrilled to be welcoming guest futurist, Dr Lonny Brooks, who is an Afrofuturist scholar and practitioner. He’ll give us an overview of his work and share a little of his own journey working in the futures space. He’s also going to share some ideas about what he is imagining as a possible future of higher education. You can read a little about him here. He is a Research Affiliate with IFTF. Check out Afro-rithms from the Future, an interactive speculative futures game, we will be playing together!
Recent PSU Collaboratory publication:
We are thrilled to announce that an article that several of us wrote last year about our work in the PSU Collaboratory has been published in the journal “World Futures Review” today. Here is the link. It’s part of a special edition of the journal on the future of universities.
We’ll revisit the CLA framework that we began to explore with Dr. Inayatullah in December, and more deeply develop our own sense of possibilities, metaphors and ideas about PSU’s futures.
IMAGINE IT IS THE YEAR 2030...AND PSU IS THRIVING!!
Stretch your imagination to answer the following!
What are the most important values that have guided us and provided the foundation for our success
What are the indicators of these values in motion in a practical way? (Programs, structures, administrative, pedagogical, student success approaches?)
Bonus question: What do you imagine we overcame to get there? How did we do that?
More ...
The biggest technology failures of 2020
What will our post-pandemic future look like?
The relentless price of high individualism in the pandemic (includes analysis about impacts on higher education)
Embracing the possibilities of disruption (higher education specific)
Student life in the age of Covid-19 (beautiful and powerful piece written by a graduate student)
Uncharted territory: A guide to reimagining higher education (from the Stanford D. School)
What higher education leaders need to know the latest federal relief package
The wreckage Betsy DeVoss leaves behind
From Laura’s Social Work Futures blog: Grief and the future of social work (Curated post to consider the deep grief that has been here for too long, that which is new, and that which is coming.)