Talking with a great friend of mine tonight, I came up with an idea to help market a university while improving its academics and student growth.
1. There would be a fund growing in an interest-based account dedicated to projects to involve the college with state-wide efforts.
2. Each department would have a committee of three qualified professors. Each department would come up with ideas and projects to take the accepted theories and practices of their discipline into effect. For example, the English department would come up with a project to improve the composition skills of HS students entering college by focusing on teaching methods of HS teachers. This could be done with the help of education departments.
3. The top 3 projects get the funding to go out and help out people in the state. This whole process would occur yearly.
4. The college will market, market, market these projects across the state. And this will NOT forsake the education of students at the university. They will be an active part of these development of projects through classwork and volunteer work. This will provide valuable planning and fundamental life skills along with REAL WORLD experience that students desperately need before they graduate. That in turn will get the student-professor relationship closer, bringing the university community closer.
What do you think? Keep in mind I thought of this in 5 minutes.
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interesting idea. however... where would this money come from? god knows university systems spend way too much money on sports, renovations, construction, etc to actually produce a bank account of just interest earing money. and also. who would pick these top 3 projects? and who would pick them without being biased? clearly, sciences should be put first and education/english far behind.... :P
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