Jan 9 95

I propose we form a college-within-a-college. That means that about 20
faculty and 200 students (give or take) from all academic disciples
all move their residences and offices to a certain part of campus
(Prescott is obviously the best place because it has faculty offices,
the Tavern, and classrooms). The faculty are no longer grouped by
discipline, and they decide what to teach based on the needs of the
students. Basically, it's like a little Johnston-college. Admissions
office can of course still do admissions for the whole campus, but it
can advertise two options: a serious living-learning, and a serious
learning. (see the paper I wrote, off my home page somewhere, for more
info). We don't need to keep the traditional class structures any more
than we decide to. We have to have our own graduation requirements,
decided on by us. The point is that we can decide a whole lot for
ourselves, and that we do a whole lot for ourselves. I would suggest,
of course, that *every* house do this, but there aren't that many
people who are excited about the idea. It's totally outlandish, I
know. The way to do it is to get a big donation of money from somebody
who will pay for lots of neat things to happen 1) to have
self-evaluation 2) to have faculty and student exchanges with other
alternative colleges. We could even use just a PART of prescott, the
important thing is that we have enough neat faculty to go around and
that everybody who is in it is psyched about it, faculty and
students. How do we go about it?