Innovation Focus of Faculty Convocation
October 29, 2009
How universities will need to change to accommodate future teaching and learning innovations served as the topic of Georgetown's Fall Faculty Convocation on Oct. 28.
Diana Chapman Walsh, president emerita of Wellesley College and the convocation's featured speaker, said universities are in the midst of a "thought revolution, a movement to reawaken higher education to its highest calling."
"We ask ourselves what would an excellent and rigorous undergraduate education look like if it were more fully attuned to the 21st-century global imperatives of interdependence, sustainability and mutual cooperation?" said Walsh, who served as president of Wellesley for 14 years.
"What better place to ask ourselves that than in this university, in this city, in this country?"
Contemplating innovations in teaching and learning at Georgetown is an ongoing process represented in a new video screened at convocation by the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS).
