PAR: add risk?

Can we add a category to PAR that includes “stuff I’ve tried” digital/ technological (akin to new teaching methods–maybe augment teaching methods to include new digital/tech?

Revise RPT regulations and specs to reflect PROCESS and innovations in teaching–not 1/3 service/teaching/scholarship, but different

we signal what we value through this document. Can it become relevant to what we value instead of default? Can we design this to reflect what we want at ASC?

Structural changes: what might they be? Ramifications, changing mid stream? Are we changing the “value” for those who’ve already earned? Is different necessarily better/worse? If this is complicated, is that a reason not to change it?

Can established tenured faculty write this according to what is now?

 

 

Snips from a journal

Breath stops the chatter and creates the opening. (monk says you don’t have to try hard to meditate, just think about in and out breath as you drink tea, carry groceries, open your door).

just for today I will adjust myself to what is

to some I am a terrorist, to some a savior

 

The Golden Hoop

Wasfia Nazreen told a story in her leaderstory talk about an auntie that told her she was unladylike when she was attempting to hula hoop as a child, and this shaming incident stuck with her. Later on one of her summit journeys she carried a hula hoop with her as a symbol of her reclamation–and hooped on top of the mountain. I think it would be a cool idea to make a Golden Hoop Award for a student overcoming an obstacle, and/or individuating herself. a summit and

Houses Like Walden

We could build sustainable/solar paneled houses down by the pond with composting toilets. Partner with GA tech architecture students and build five houses around the pond that are state of the art “tiny houses”. Then rent them out to people as artist/writer retreat. People in them could eat at dining hall, shower at gym.

Aptly-named-Wedge-chic-cabin-features-large-windows

http://www.popsugar.com/home/Photos-Tiny-Houses-14945418#photo-35377248

 

Landscaping toward the arts

Make a transition in the landscaping on campus that goes from formal to wild as you walk from the front circle/alumnae house to Dana. At Dana the grasses become meadowlands, and we have sustainability student garden beds, and the green roofs in the new buildings (with a goat), so you get the sense as you walk across campus of the transition from traditional academic disciplines into the the wildness of the creative human spirit.

Trees as Teachers

At info desk in Alston: lend out earphone walking tours like in a museum of the arboretum on campus. Lend hammocks. Create an interactive paper piece that talks about how to see on the walk (framing views, drawing contour, drawing for information). Partner with philosophy, art, history, english etc. to enrich these pieces. Make it a series, every year add another discipline: how can you look at a tree/landscape form an historical point of view? Studio art point of view? Philosophical point of view? Use the arboretum as the focus of a series of student engagement projects. End product is a thing that asks questions in the manner of the discipline that visitors can pick up and take with them/perform.