Building the Intentional University Building the Intentional University Minerva and the Future of Higher Education Edited by Stephen M. Kosslyn and Ben Nelson Foreword by Senator Bob Kerrey The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2017 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in Stone Sans and Stone Serif by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. ISBN: 978-0-262-03715-0 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is dedicated to Kevin Harvey and Sheldon H. Schuster, who enabled and enable Minerva through principled daring and vision. We owe both of you everlasting thanks for allowing us to realize our dream. Contents Foreword: Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century xi Senator Bob Kerrey Preface xix Ben Nelson Part I What We Teach and Why 1 1 Why We Need a New Kind of Higher Education 5 Stephen M. Kosslyn and Ben Nelson 2 Practical Knowledge 19 Stephen M. Kosslyn 3 Foundations of the Curriculum 45 Ben Nelson and Stephen M. Kosslyn 4 A New Look at General Education 57 Joshua Fost 5 Multimodal Communications and Effective Communication 73 Judith C. Brown, Kara Gardner, and Daniel J. Levitin 6 Formal Analyses and Critical Thinking 87 John Levitt, Richard Holman, Rena Levitt, and Eric Bonabeau 7 Empirical Analyses and Creative Thinking 97 Megan Gahl and Vicki Chandler 8 Complex Systems and Effective Interaction 109 James Genone and Ian Van Buskirk 9 A New Look at Majors and Concentrations 121 Vicki Chandler, Stephen M. Kosslyn, and James Genone viii Contents Part II How We Teach 135 10 Unlearning to Learn 139 Stephen M. Kosslyn, Robin B. Goldberg, and Teri Cannon 11 The Science of Learning: Mechanisms and Principles 149 Stephen M. Kosslyn 12 Fully Active Learning 165 Joshua Fost, Rena Levitt, and Stephen M. Kosslyn 13 A New Team-Teaching Approach to Structured Learning 179 Joshua Fost, Vicki Chandler, Kara Gardner, and Allison Gale 14 Teaching from Lesson Plans 193 Vicki Chandler, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Richard Holman, and James Genone 15 The Active Learning Forum 203 Jonathan Katzman, Matt Regan, and Ari Bader-Natal 16 Building Lesson Plans for Twenty-First-Century Active Learning 221 Ari Bader-Natal, Joshua Fost, and James Genone 17 Assessing Student Learning 239 Rena Levitt, Ari Bader-Natal, and Vicki Chandler Part III Creating a New Institution 253 18 Building a New Brand 255 Ayo Seligman and Robin B. Goldberg 19 Global Outreach: Communicating a New Vision 265 Kenn Ross and Robin B. Goldberg 20 An Admissions Process for the Twenty-First Century 277 Neagheen Homaifar, Ben Nelson, and Stephen M. Kosslyn 21 Multifaceted Acculturation: An Immersive, Community-Based Multicultural Education 293 Norian Caporale-Berkowitz and James Lyda 22 Experiential Learning: The City as a Campus and Human Network 305 Z. Mike Wang and Robin B. Goldberg 23 A Global Community by Design 315 Z. Mike Wang and Sultanna Krispil