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How to Live the Future of Education Today. Dr. Trent Keough President and CEO Portage College trent.keough@portagecollege.ca. Action One. Please identify the attributes of our tumultuous times. Action 2. What makes for tumultuous times in education besides these three? Hope and Dignity
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How to Live the Future of Education Today Dr. Trent Keough President and CEO Portage College trent.keough@portagecollege.ca
Action One • Please identify the attributes of our tumultuous times. Trent Keough
Action 2 What makes for tumultuous times in education besides these three? • Hope and Dignity • Control and Futurology • Identity and Authority Trent Keough
Action 3 • What is the present relationship between education and the social contract? Trent Keough
Action 4 • What economic/cultural changes have occurred to undermine traditionalist views of supply/demand modelling in education? Trent Keough
Action 5 • What is the fundamental challenge to post-secondary education? Trent Keough
Kinser and Hill’s “Where are we Currently?” • Rapidity of Change • Global environment • New economic power centres • Diminished resources • Increasing public expectations • Accountability mandates • Demographic transformations • Decline of trust • Demand . . . for simple solutions to difficult problems Trent Keough
"Your fear of change is too clearly visible in your eyes.“ Douglas Coupland
Ascendency of Partnership/Collaboration Trent Keough
Call to Action • Kinser and Hill present a call to action based on the gleanings taken from a transatlantic dialogue. • The convened dialogue had a specified purpose. Trent Keough
Kinser & Hill’s “What Do We Need To Get There?” • Autonomy and Accountability • Focus on Attainment • Changing Faculty Roles • Alternative Academic Models • Regional Development • Internationalization • Enhancing Capacity for Change and Innovation Trent Keough