Higher Education and Complexity: White Paper and Discussion Outline

Documents and communications related to meeting held on 26 July 1999 at George Mason University. Participants included James H. Finkelstein, Daniele C. Struppa and John N. Warfield. Participants discussed Warfield’s suggestions for curriculum changes.



Sent to GMU 27 September 2007. All 4 items below are at GMU. There was only one meeting on the topic, held on 26 July 1999 in Warfield's office in Room 10 of Module G on the Fairfax campus of the university. Participants at the meeting are named on the title page: James H. Finkelstein, Daniele C. Struppa and John N. Warfield. The folder has four items: 1) 15 June 1999. Six page MANUSCRIPT: "Higher Education and Complexity: White Paper re Discussions of Higher Education planned for 26 July 1999. Participants James H. Finkelstein, Daniele C. Struppa, John N. Warfield." (This document sent to the participants 4 to 6 weeks in advance of meeting) 2) 15 June 1999. EMAIL to Strupa, asking for his review and comment on white paper with request for his suggestions or revisions. 3) 15 July 1999 MANUSCRIPT: "Higher Education and Complexity: Outline of Discussions of Higher Education Planned for 26 July 1999" This was 8-page paper, or memo, sent to Struppa and Finkelstein one week before the meeting, review and summary of Warfield's WHITE PAPER of the same title which had been sent out a month earlier. 4) 15 July 1999 EMAIL "Four-Proposition agenda for 28 July Meeting on Higher Education" to Strupa & Finkelstein, copy to Kingsley Haynes, with summary of 4 "Basic Propositions for Education Meeting." When Rose Warfield asked him about these papers in 2003, Warfield commented "what I wanted them to do was to start courses, one in Math Department and on in The School of Public Policy. The math guy was not interested, and the TIPP guy couldn't." Prof. Struppa was at that time head of the Math department, later became Dean of Arts and Sciences at GMU, while Finkelstein was a professor in School of Public Policy, later became Associate Dean of Public Policy at GMU. Until the day he retired, and for some time after, Warfield had been attempting to bring influence to bear on a new, variant type of curriculum, not only at GMU but in all of higher education. This July 1991 effort, like so many others, was not productive.




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  • Category: Correspondence and Communications, Education, Solutions or Improvements for Complex Situations
  • Size: 213 p
  • Description: Email
  • Publication Year: 2000
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