Higher Education 3: The Wandwaver Solution; Creating the Great University

Author's presentation notes for Complexity lecture 12, the closing event of a 1998 Fall Semester "Complexity" series. Dr. John N. Warfield argues that it is time to revamp the education system in America. He proposes a new type of college he calls the “Horizons” college. Part of a series of 12 lectures on complexity given at the Johnson Center, George Mason University, this was third of a group of three lectures on the topic of education.  A video of this lecture is available. Contains many of the ideas originally found in “The Wandwaver Solution: Creating the Great University.”

In addition to this 20 page Handout for the Complexity lecture,  each member of the audience received a copy of Warfield's 125 page  Wandwaver Solution: Creating the Great University, a Report he had submitted in 1996 to incoming President Alan Merten and other GMU administrators.  The title of Lecture 12, "Higher Education 3: The Wandwaver Solution” continues in the same theme as his 1996 Report, although the two documents are quite different. Both are proposals for a structural reorganization of basic university administration along with a regrouping and revalidation of scholastic offerings.   

Title list of transparencies. All are printed in Lecture 12 audience Handout.  See also  “Johnson Center Lecture Series on Complexity: Lecture Group 3a tape bound report of the lecture series.

    The University is Presently Failing…     

    What are the Demands of Complexity on Higher Education?      

    Three Study Dimensions of the National Association of Scholars Study    

    Assessing the Dissolution of General Education 

    Three Major Study Dimensions     

    Assessing the Dissolution of General Education Conclusions 1   

    Assessing the Dissolution of General Education 1914-1993 Conclusions 2     

    Partial Organization Chart for the Great University    

    Three Perry Goals    

    Three University Divisions     

    The Facilitative Model of the University

 OVERALL LIST OF THE 12 JOHNSON CENTER  LECTURES:

         1- Thought Leaders and Their Contributions [text] [no VHS/MPEG]

                      This lecture was not filmed; it is hoped to make a studio videotape later.

          2 -  Twenty Laws of Complexity [text] [no VHS/MPEG]

                       This lecture was not filmed; it is hoped to make a studio videotape later.

          3 -  Applications in Industry & Government [text] [VHS/MPEG]

          4 -  Implications for Higher Education, Part I: Undergraduate Education in the USA [text] [VHS/MPEG]

          5 -  Seven Milestones in the History of Thought [text] [no VHS/MPEG]

                      This lecture was not filmed; it is hoped to make a studio videotape later.

           6 - The Mathematics of Structure [text] [VHS/MPEG]

           7 -  Applications in Ghana, Liberia and Mexico [text] [VHS/MPEG]

           8 -  Higher Education and the Thought Leaders [text] [VHS/MPEG]

           9 - The Legacy of Charles Sanders Peirce [text] [VHS/MPEG]

          10 - The Work Program of Complexity [text] [VHS/MPEG]

          11 -  Applications of Interactive Management in Cyprus [text] [VHS/MPEG Tape 1;  Tape 2]

          12 - The Wandwaver Solution [this text] [VHS/MPEG]

(r.w. 3/4/2007, updated May 2012, and March 30, 2017)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Additional Info

  • Category: Complexity, Education
  • Size: 163 p
  • Description: Publisher's offprint (scanned)
  • Series Number: 6
  • Publication Year: 1999
  • Publication Month: 11
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