Provides historical overview and context for experiential education initiatives on college campuses going forward.

1. The Future of
Higher
Education
is
EXPERIENTIAL

2. First…
Some questions for you…

3. Do you view yourself as an
educator?

4. What are some of the
educational goals you have
for your students?

5. How do you provide
opportunities for them to
reach these goals?

6. What influences your
beliefs about what your
students should learn at
your institution?

7. Think about what you hope college
means to your students…
How WOULD you do that?

8. Looking back in history…
Understanding where we came from…

9. University of Bologna

10. University of Bologna
• Founded in 1088
• Students lived in the surrounding
community
• Unruly, drunk, vagrants
• University claimed no control over
living environment

11. Oxford and Cambridge

12. Oxford and Cambridge
• Experienced same issues as Bologna
• Began taking control of residences in
1500s
• Residential colleges were born
• Faculty in part focused on student
religious salvation
• Elite system

13. Colonial colleges

14. Colonial Colleges
• Borrowed from OxBridge
• Same issues of community/campus
housing
• Elite System
• Beginning development of Greek-
letter organizations and literary
societies

15. Early
1900s

16. Early 1900s
• Still an elite system
• Land Grant colleges firmly established
• German model arrives in the US
• Start of appointment secretaries and
student personnel work

17. Post-WWII

18. Post WWII
• GI Bill results in large influx of
students
• Move away from elite system

19. 1950s/60s
Baby
Boomers
Arrive

20. 1950s/60s
• Large demand for housing results in
the “high rise” and many of the
buildings still on campus today
• “Co-ed” housing
• Unrest and protest of the 60s results
in residence life as a means of control

21. 1980s/90s

22. 1980s/90s
• Programming models and the
wellness wheel come into use
• Beginning of increased accountability/
need to prove outcomes through data
and assessment

23. present

24. Present
• Programs increasingly developing
outcomes and assessment measures
• Establishment and refinement of living
learning communities

25. Where do you
look?

26. Think big!

27. The Future of
Higher
Education
is
EXPERIENTIAL

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