SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Multiversity, Generation Z, Academic Freedom
15 Jun 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
The University; The Multiversity
Monday, September 26, 2016
Old school/ New school:
- Generation Z
o The “right now” generation
o “digital in their DNA”
o A lifetime of experiences with digital media, mobile devices and the internet
o Instantaneous connectivity
o Prefer symbol and images over text
o Communicate in short bursts
- Predominantly print-culture world of higher education
o Labour-intensive, time-consuming study of texts and data
o Make precise connections between the elements found in complex wholes
o An ongoing, close, careful and critical commitment to detail
o The Yang to the Ying of generation Z’s skills and experiences
o Comfortable accepting a slower, more methodical approach to information
gathering
Expectations of university:
- Students think that they will not become new people when they enter university, but
rather more like the people who they already are.
- Professors must try to look toward the goal of human completeness and back at the nature
of their students here and now.
What is a university?
- “a place of teaching and universal knowledge—its object is intellectual”
- “Education exposes you to the best which has been thought and said in the world”
- Humboldt’s university:
o Professors were specialists
o Research—human reason to expand knowledge
o Academic freedom – follow research to where it leads
▪ There was still a strong religious control
o Philosophy, liberal arts and critique central to university – not professional
schools
- There is a heavy emphasis on research and specialization in school
University to multiversity:
- Universities were seen as public institutions
- Launch of Sputnik (1957)
o Huge panic in USA
o Motivated political leaders to regress
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