Editing Resolutions for Higher Education

Format Ideas:
"Ten Resolutions on the Future of Higher Education"
- give context
- allow full range of access to course materials for community
- encourage all faculty to make materials available online for free
- connect to values
- prepare for future
- why...?
- preamble



Values:
- service to humanity

Whereas:
- technology does 'x'
- the college holds 'x' values
- our peers are engaging in 'x'
- it's super easy!
	--> we have the intellectual and material resources

--> Upshot for Social Justice -->
--> Upshot for Students -->
--> Public knowledge is public power -->
--> The world is changing in 'x' ways -->

Resolved:
- we should provide facilities to make all course materials (professor work, student work, etc.) available freely to the public
- encourage all faculty to publish online
- highlight open journals
- provide for assistance to those faculty that wish to publish online but are unable

Rules of Higher Education:
- constructively encourage faculty and students to express ideas to the world
- provide means to members of the community to publish openly
- provide access to these ideas to humanity
- publish library collections
- space for students to publish 
- establish and participate in efforts to engage in civil and informed discourse
- constructively contribute to the intellectual commons in cyberspace

(ideas from Freenet meeting on 3/8/11)