Meet the first class to enter Stanford's new Faculty College
BY KATHLEEN J. SULLIVAN
The entering class of the 2012 Faculty College is an eclectic bunch that includes a musician, a biologist, electrical engineers, an expert on child health policy and professors of French and Italian, American Art and Culture and Ethics in Society.
All told, six faculty teams are participating in the first "Faculty College" at Stanford. Harry J. Elam Jr., vice provost for undergraduate education (VPUE), unveiled the new program at the Faculty Senate's June 9 meeting.
Stanford will provide the teams with the space, time and resources to create new team-taught courses, to make a major change to a department's curriculum or to establish new cross-disciplinary teaching endeavors.
"The hope is that focused time spent in Faculty College will lead to critical improvements in undergraduate education at Stanford and that Faculty College can be an exciting space that continually helps to rejuvenate and foreground the importance of undergraduate education at Stanford," Elam wrote in a two-page handout distributed at last Thursday's meeting.
Learning about 'design thinking'During the morning session of Faculty College on June 10, the teams took part in a workshop on how to apply design thinking – a methodology for practical, creative resolution of problems or issues that looks for an improved future result – to the process of creating new courses.
The daylong meeting was held at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design .
David Kelley, the Donald W. Whittier Professor in Mechanical Engineering and founder of IDEO, a global design firm based in Palo Alto, presented an overview of design thinking.
Bill Burnett, a consulting assistant professor in mechanical engineering and the executive director of the institute's design program, led the participants in design thinking exercises, including one in which participants paired up for an empathetic listening exercise about each other's gift-giving behaviors.
Drama Professor Janice Ross, director of the department's Dance Division, described the day as "invigorating in the best sense of the word."
"The opening design thinking session launched each of us with a 'serious fun' approach to how we might discard the usual dry approach to course development and put the concerns of our future students first," Ross wrote in an email.
"Framing the knowledge we are shaping in our respective teams as 'gifts' we are giving, we engaged in a lively rehearsal of how to enhance the chances of success in gift-giving, first conceptually, then logistically and finally practically. In our afternoon session the practical part arrived as we tried to harness all that high-spirited energy into a new curriculum. It was a wonderful way to inaugurate and jump start the hard work that lies ahead.
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