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1. Yet Another Dog Says this:

   “Thinking about CAS” – is really a two way dialogue. I am really not much interested in reading about the Dean’s football weekend or any other light CRAP designed for humorous relief from the salt mines work. The first post does talk a bit about collaboration so I sent this to the suggestion box:

   As almost all things UO – we tend to remain insular.

   If the CAS deans are serious about collaboration (I don’t believe they are – I think they just want to talk about it) in one of the most anti-collaborative institutions I have ever seen (everyone one here only cares about protecting their budget and collaboration is usually viewed as a threat – this is the conversation we actually refuse to have) – then they might want to refer to extant work on this:

   https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/collaborating-learn-learning-collaborate

   http://berks.psu.edu/sites/default/files/campus/kezar.pdf

   https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/teamcollaborative-teaching/

   http://opus.ipfw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=spe

   http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/tedsarticles/encouragingcl.htm

   and indeed, the 1950s produce mass consumption and the sense of entitlement, all good, right …?

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