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Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education

Stephen M. Kosslyn and Ben Nelson

Abstract

Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world’s students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized ... More

Keywords: Higher education, Minerva, Curriculum, Pedagogy, Practical knowledge, Scientific research, Critical thinking, Cognitive tools, Creative thinking, Effective communication, Effective interaction

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9780262037150
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: May 2018 DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262037150.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Stephen M. Kosslyn, editor
Minerva Schools at KGI 

Ben Nelson, editor
Minerva

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Frontispiece

Foreword: Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century

Preface

I What We Teach and Why

1 Why We Need a New Kind of Higher Education

Stephen M. Kosslyn and Ben Nelson

2 Practical Knowledge

Stephen M. Kosslyn

3 Foundations of the Curriculum

Ben Nelson and Stephen M. Kosslyn

4 A New Look at General Education

Joshua Fost

5 Multimodal Communications and Effective Communication

Judith C. Brown, Kara Gardner, and Daniel J. Levitin

6 Formal Analyses and Critical Thinking

John Levitt, Richard Holman, Rena Levitt, and Eric Bonabeau

7 Empirical Analyses and Creative Thinking

Megan Gahl and Vicki Chandler

8 Complex Systems and Effective Interaction

James Genone and Ian Van Buskirk

9 A New Look at Majors and Concentrations

Vicki Chandler, Stephen M. Kosslyn, and James Genone

II How We Teach

10 Unlearning to Learn

Stephen M. Kosslyn, Robin B. Goldberg, and Teri Cannon

11 The Science of Learning: Mechanisms and Principles

Stephen M. Kosslyn

12 Fully Active Learning

Joshua Fost, Rena Levitt, and Stephen M. Kosslyn

13 A New Team-Teaching Approach to Structured Learning

Joshua Fost, Vicki Chandler, Kara Gardner, and Allison Gale

14 Teaching from Lesson Plans

Vicki Chandler, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Richard Holman, and James Genone

15 The Active Learning Forum

Jonathan Katzman, Matt Regan, and Ari Bader-Natal

16 Building Lesson Plans for Twenty-First-Century Active Learning

Ari Bader-Natal, Joshua Fost, and James Genone

17 Assessing Student Learning

Rena Levitt, Ari Bader-Natal, and Vicki Chandler

III Creating a New Institution

18 Building a New Brand

Ayo Seligman and Robin B. Goldberg

19 Global Outreach: Communicating a New Vision

Kenn Ross and Robin B. Goldberg

20 An Admissions Process for the Twenty-First Century

Neagheen Homaifar, Ben Nelson, and Stephen M. Kosslyn

21 Multifaceted Acculturation: An Immersive, Community-Based Multicultural Education

Norian Caporale-Berkowitz and James Lyda

22 Experiential Learning: The City as a Campus and Human Network

Z. Mike Wang and Robin B. Goldberg

23 A Global Community by Design

Z. Mike Wang and Sultanna Krispil

24 Mental Health Services in a Diverse, Twenty-First-Century University

James Lyda and Norian Caporale-Berkowitz

25 The Minerva Professional Development Agency

Robin B. Goldberg and Anne Kauth

26 Accreditation: Official Recognition of a New Vision of Higher Education

Teri Cannon

27 A Novel Business and Operating Model

Ben Nelson

Afterword: For the Sake of the World

Ben Nelson, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Jonathan Katzman, Robin B. Goldberg, and Teri Cannon

End Matter

Appendix A: Habits of Mind and Foundational Concepts

Appendix B: Mission, Principles, and Practices

Editors and Contributors

Index