Book Club Session 3 Recording

UC Irvine Compass Community of Practice Book Club on The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World. This virtual session was held on Monday, June 24, 2024, 10:00-11:00am PT.

We are thrilled to have Laura Monje-Paulson, Director of Assessment, Research, and Evaluation in the Office of the Vice Chancellor, and Edgar Dormitorio, Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff, for Student Affairs at UC Irvine, sharing about the Student Affairs Division tools and initiatives around Orientation, for incoming students and departments, that utilize tech, but still personalize the experience for our diverse student body. Session 3 will focus on the following chapters.

Session 3
Part II: Orientation
Chapters 2-5

2 - The Education Factory (page 21)
How We Got Our Current System and Why It’s Such an Expensive, Inefficient Mess
3 - Seating Arrangements (page 39)
Why Limited Classroom Space Leads Rich Parents to Bribe Their Kids into College
4 - Masters of None (page 53)
Why We Standardize Our Teaching Even Though We Know Our Students Are Unique
5 - The Noisy Classroom (page 71)
What College Diplomas Signal—and the Resulting Distortions

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