We Need Them and They Need Us

THIS WAS DELIVERED TO MY EMAIL THIS AFTERNOON - Do you know what a "gold mine" this info is....??

"The ten most widely read articles from last year’s online edition of EDUCAUSE Review focused on open education, Web 2.0, virtual worlds, e-books, digital libraries, analytics, and the top issues facing higher education IT.

In case you missed them in 2008:

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0
JOHN SEELY BROWN AND RICHARD P. ADLER

Top-Ten IT Issues, 2008
DEBRA H. ALLISON, PETER B. DEBLOIS, AND THE 2008 EDUCAUSE CURRENT ISSUES COMMITTEE

Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre
BRYAN ALEXANDER AND ALAN LEVINE

Virtual Worlds? "Outlook Good"
AJ KELTON ("AJ BROOKS")

E-Books in Higher Education: Nearing the End of the Era of Hype?
MARK R. NELSON

Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries
PETER BRANTLEY

A Seismic Shift in Epistemology
CHRIS DEDE

Action Analytics: Measuring and Improving Performance That Matters in Higher Education
DONALD NORRIS, LINDA BAER, JOAN LEONARD, LOUIS PUGLIESE, AND PAUL LEFRERE

Facebook 2.0
TRACY MITRANO

Higher Education as Virtual Conversation
SARAH ROBBINS-BELL ("INTELLAGIRL TULLY")"

These folks are some of the top in their respective fields and their telling us what the most read topics are/were for 2008. I think Student Services folks need to pay attention to these topics as a part of the integrating schema that will be or is affecting your campuses and will or is affect your campus student services. We are no longer in an economy where can we participate in just "our" area of expertise - student services. The business is changing. We need them and they need us - as in the IT folks, the virtual learning folks, the open source folks, the open textbook folks, the web 2.0 faculty, the web analytics assessment folks. That's the future.

Watch Change to Learn, Learn to Change. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiby3m_RyM

Student Leadership for Global Citizenship

I have been in Multicultural Student Services jobs, a ba-zillion diversity trainings and institutional budget wars over what was the "right" thing to do, etc., etc. for a very, very long time. I have raised 3 Native American children in a diverse world and in ethnically homogeneous communities. So what I am about to say made even me question some basic social justice hallowed thought about how we teach students about who they are and the history of where they come. Social justice ideas that we have been holding onto in this country since the civil rights movement.

Here it is - "I DON'T THINK WE ARE DOING ANY STUDENTS ANY FAVORS BY TEACHING THEM ABOUT THEIR HISTORY IN THIS COUNTRY IF ALL IT DOES IS MAKE THEM ANGRY AND ONCE ANGRY THEY END UP GOING TO JAIL OR END UP DEAD!" We have to give them options past the "your people have been messed with dude" to "I can truly show you how to make a real difference in this world for YOUR people (including yourself, your family and your communities) and for all others!"

And that is what I saw visiting Bellevue Community College Student Leadership Programs. Faisal Jaswal, Assistant Dean of Student Programs, has an amazing thing going on over there. They are training real leaders in real business leadership principles of competition, communication, and compassion for world citizenship through their student clubs processes and project management. He's got the faculty on board. The president asked him to come up with it, so supports it. And he has all kinds of student ENGAGED.

Watch this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUdy7ADZd9E Bellevue has figured out how to make it possible that all of their students can visit another country regardless of ability to pay. And all students need to understand how to interact in a global world because of pervasive technology and because tribal corporations, Black businesses, Hispanic 500s now have investments all over the world.

Here are just a few of the fantastic things I see Bellevue doing:

Students recognize that the world is dynamic, fragmented, and saturated with ever-shifting information, capital, social and environmental struggles,

Students have the ability to apply knowledge and multiple skills to complex problems faced by individuals and groups in an interdependent world community.

Bellevue's Student Leadership programming really does do the following...


Developing Global Learning by Doing through Projects that the Students Create:
The capacity for individual empathy, civic and ethical responsibility,
The ability to live well among complexity,
The ability to identity and solve complex problems,
An understanding of social structures and systems in the US and elsewhere from differing points of view,
An appreciation, understanding and engagement of the values of world-based, participatory democracy.

ALL Students Clubs offer comprehensive:
Leadership training for students is cohesive and centralized, with over-arching mission and values towards global citizenship,

Clubs partner to assist and learn from each other about global citizenship,

Clubs partner provide service learning to the entire student body to assist global understanding,

Student leadership prepares students for project management in a global economy.

And finally, Bellevue CC Student Leadership even put out quarterly reports - see http://bellevuecollege.edu/stupro/pdf_doc/asg_offical_summer_quater_report_executive_summary_2007-2008.doc