SUNY Broome Community College on LinkedIn: Our campus was buzzing with energy on Saturday as students unpacked and… (2024)

The start of a new semester is always full of energy.

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We often hear #highered referred to as an "engine of social and economic mobility, " but it seems the check engine light is on (good thing my grandpa was a mechanic 🔧)!Read my thoughts on extending the metaphor in "Internal Combustion: Rebuilding America's Engine of Social and Economic Mobility":https://lnkd.in/exZwZXRQ#studentsuccess #highereducation

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EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT ENERGYBut everybody doesn’t know what that means.Everything has been created by energy.And it’s energy that keeps us going now.If everybody knew, we’d know the brainless energy never spent a day at school yet made us from scratch, brain included.Though we’ll never know how.The reason we don’t know how energy knows is because school — that energy never spent a day at — indoctrinates that the opposite is true.>>> “‎Strange times are these in when old and young are taught falsehoods in school.” – Plato>>> “The school system is the hom*ogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.” – Marshall McLuhan>>> “When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” – Paul SimonDespite this, you don’t wait for the energy to make your dreams come true. You know enough to use your energy and dreams instead.“You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction, you’re on your own, you know what you know, and you’re the one who’ll decide where you’ll go,” that is according to the late Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel.Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel is best known for not lying and for writing and illustrating more than 60 children books that sold over 600 million copies instead.He is also known to have said “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple”.That’s in stark contrast to the all-too many word-users that lie professionally.Thank you Dr. Seuss.RIP>>> What’s your view on this?>>> Reshare if you think I got it right

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Heather Short, who resigned from a tenure-track position in "conscientious objection to business-as-usual with a green twist" to pursue the work she sees needs to be done in formal education systems, has written a very powerful letter on the transformation needed: https://lnkd.in/gzfSkNYRI will be referring to these powerful three points in my writing and speaking going forward:1) Mandatory climate literacy training for all employees, including the science behind the climate, ecological, and allied emergencies and what actions will meaningfully address them, with specialist psychological support and training; 2) A re-structuring of college governance to mirror the kinds of societal-level systemic change that needs to happen in order to address our multiple overlapping existential threats, such as participatory democracy and citizen’s assemblies that enable direct teacher and student involvement in all decision-making; 3) A reorganization of the curriculum to centre a deep understanding of the Earth and ecological systems that allows us to live on this planet, how the industrial activity of a very small number of privileged humans has caused the boundaries of those systems to be spectacularly breached for all, and how our global economic/political system that extracts, subjugates, transacts, and accumulates by design is the common cause of our present climate-ecological crisis and our profound economic-racial-gender-social inequalities.Thank you Heather for your leadership and courage!

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A vision for transforming education in the face of climate and ecological breakdown: Preparing students for their futures requires nothing short of transformative systemic change in all aspects of society. #cycle2care is also about that.Thanks Arjen Wals for sharing this important letter.

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Unlock a world of unimaginable benefits with a college education! 🌟 Discover the endless opportunities and advantages it brings. 🎓 Dive into the blog, share the enlightenment, and inspire others to embrace the transformative power of higher education! https://bit.ly/3uucXdg

Unlock a world of unimaginable benefits with a college education! 🌟 Discover the endless opportunities and advantages it brings. 🎓 Dive into the blog, share the enlightenment, and inspire others to embrace the transformative power of higher education! https://bit.ly/3uucXdg

Unlock a world of unimaginable benefits with a college education! 🌟 Discover the endless opportunities and advantages it brings. 🎓 Dive into the blog, share the enlightenment, and inspire others to embrace the transformative power of higher education! https://bit.ly/3uucXdg

Unlock a world of unimaginable benefits with a college education! 🌟 Discover the endless opportunities and advantages it brings. 🎓 Dive into the blog, share the enlightenment, and inspire others to embrace the transformative power of higher education! https://bit.ly/3uucXdg

Unlock a world of unimaginable benefits with a college education! 🌟 Discover the endless opportunities and advantages it brings. 🎓 Dive into the blog, share the enlightenment, and inspire others to embrace the transformative power of higher education! https://bit.ly/3uucXdg