1. Thinking About the Best Futures For--- A Keynote Speech by David G. Brown, Wake Forest University October 16, 2000

2. Impressive! Focus Upon STUDENTS 75%+ Completion Very Few Places in the Country are your equal!

3. Thought Starters from Brown Technology is… Reviving COMMUNITY Altering STUDENT EXPECTATIONS Providing NEW OPTIONS for Faculty Enabling NEW CURRICULA Transforming COLLEGES

4. What’s Special about Berkeley College Why do students come to Berkeley? Why do faculty stay at Berkeley? Why do you continue to work at Berkeley? What is “the Berkeley Difference”? WRITE IT DOWN!

5. Ways of Thinking About Presidential Campaigns and Debates A First Year Seminar Introducing Students to the Liberal Arts 15 Freshmen Meet twice per week All with open laptops

6. Computers Enhance My Teaching and/or Learning Via-- Presentations Better--20% More Opportunities to Practice & Analyze--35% More Access to Source Materials via Internet--43% More Communication with Faculty Colleagues, Classmates, and Between Faculty and Students--87%

7. Computers allow people---- to belong to more communities to be more actively engaged in each community with more people over more miles for more months and years TO BE MORE COLLABORATIVE

8. Technology is reviving & redefining Community. Who is a neighbor? A potential client? A reference? A colleague? A teacher? How can I help build a community of trust & interaction that is closely associated with Berkeley College?

9. Technology is altering student expectations Immediacy Always in Touch Interactivity Open Information Shared Authority and Second Opinions Multi-Tasking & Channel Changing Trial and Error (Nintendo)

10. Technology is providing New Options to Faculty and Staff Continuous Interaction Collaboration Teaming Learning Teams Guiding, not Telling Student Management & Monitoring Partners from Real World Second Opinions. Open Information

11. Technology is enabling New Curricula The 80-20 Rule Customized Textbooks & Manuals Learning Cohorts & Communities The Math Emporium Model The Visual Professions Information Fluency Willingness & Capacity for Renewal

12. Technology is transforming the college Databases Center on Student (My.Yahoo) Entrepreneurship Thrives (fleet of foot) Confederations and Mergers Emerge Interinstitutional Trading Expands Brokers Multiply Bricks & Mortar Stay

13. What should Berkeley do about it? What should YOU do about it?

14. Act Now -Build Identity and Loyalty -Build “Communities of Learners” & Link All Programs to Participation in and Access to Those Communities -Expand and Enrich Co-Curricular Programs (e.g. placement services & alumni-mail-forwarding) -Choose & Nurture A Few Areas For Worldwide Prominence -Maintain Aura of Impartiality & Rationality -Rejoice in the Flexibility & Survivability of Colleges

15. Act Now -Affirm as a Community that All Teaching May Proceed on the Assumption That All Students Have Internet Access -Assure Robust Communication Networks -Aim for 95% of Faculty Use of CEL by Voluntary Means -Adopt & Support a “Preferred” Laptop, CMS, & Software -Budget for Electronic Databases -Avoid “dumbing down” teaching and administrative systems

16. Act Now (Your Turn) What’s Next? --What’s Special about Berkeley? What do you do better than almost anyone else? Where is your comparative advantage? What did you write earlier? --In this new and emerging world of fuller communication & revival of community, how can Berkeley deploy these new tools in order to extend its comparative advantage (gardening metaphor)? --What’s your next step toward your objective?

17. Berkeley College’s Future Rests With Recognizing that Technology is… Reviving COMMUNITY Altering STUDENT EXPECTATIONS Providing NEW OPTIONS for Faculty Enabling NEW CURRICULA Transforming COLLEGES

18. The Good News for Higher Education Colleges and Universities adapt! 67/74 oldest institutions are universities! Adapting is our business! Adapt we will!

19. The Good News for Berkeley College Responsive to Rapid Change Reflective of Student Needs & Desires Accountable to High Completion Rates Partner Friendly Diverse Confederation

20. David G. Brown Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, N.C. 27109 336-758-4878 email: brown@wfu.edu http//:www.wfu.edu/~brown fax: 336-758-4875