FACULTY DEVELOPMENT Options for the Future Bruce Cordell

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT Options for the Future Bruce Cordell Dan Tesar 8/9/05

Faculty Development - Goals • Instruction: Help Students think about the Future – Faculty Development: Evaluate and develop the Future as a Theme across the Curriculum • Outreach/Partnering with Local Businesses – Faculty Development: 1) Develop training, courses, or programs for local businesses, and 2) Evaluate and develop the potential for consulting with local businesses • Strategic Thinking about courses, programs – Faculty Development: Evaluate and develop courses and programs so that they are consistent with future trends

Why Do We Care About the Future? • • Helps us envision alternative futures To learn about change and trends For insights into future opportunities and issues For information about new technologies and their impact on life …Because the future is where we’ll spend the rest of our lives!

A Proposal… …Create a Center for the Future The mission is to enhance learning and teaching by integrating futures perspectives and futures methodologies into faculty development.

How Do We Study the Future? Forecasting/Scanning Trend Analysis Scenario Building Delphi Analysis/Polling Models/Simulations Concept Mapping Backcasting By being Interdisciplinary and Open-Minded

Strategic Thrusts • Faculty development and participation • Grants and Support • Coordinate w Colleges (e. g. CSUF) • Outreach to Business

Futures Exercises for Any Course You don’t need to be a “futurist” to integrate futures thinking into your teaching and learning. In fact, we all think about the future everyday, so we only need to think about the “futures” side of our subject matter or academic discipline. Institute for the Future, Anne Arundel Community College, MD. Here are some steps for creating an exercise that will include the future in almost every course or class. 1) Start with the end first. What should learners “get out of the exercise? ” Some possible futures outcomes might include To understand the factors that might influence a future state. To use math or statistics to estimate a future state or condition. To use writing and thinking strategies to outline a future scenario for any discipline or field… society itself. . the list goes on. 2) What should learners be able to DO when they’re finished? To write about. . To calculate… To creatively think about… To critically think about… To apply course concepts to… 3) Include the future in the exercise. Some ways Use existing information and ask learners to project it into a future time. Use future predictions and learners critique the process by which the estimate or scenario was made. Use an existing future thinker’s view and ask learners to think creatively about the possibilities. Objectives. In this exercise you will be using an existing future thinker’s view, imagine and write about the possibilities in a brief twopage impact assignment. Steps to completion 1) Read "How are new capabilities within communications technologies going to change the shape and scope of human communities? " by - Tim Mack, President, World Future Society. 2) Describe the situation that Mack contends to be emerging in human communities. What factors are causing this? 3) Suppose Mack is correct, in what ways will human life change by 2050? Support your thoughts. 4) In what ways might Mack be “wrong? ” Indicate why you think so. 5) Send this assignment to your professor by email at xxx@xxxx (or submit it on date).

Potential Grants & Support • • • Faculty Development Funds Title V Dynamic Fund VATEA NSF Others…

Local Colleges & Activities • Cal State Fullerton – – Economics: Economic Forecasts; OCBX Survey; – CDR: OC Progress Report; OC Projections – Management: Small Business Institute • Chapman University – – Chapman Economic Forecast; Community Databases; Business/Consumer Surveys • UC, Irvine – Institute for Mathematical Behavorial Sciences • Cypress, Others…

Local Business Potential • Finding a Company for a Partner • Survey Business Needs • Provide a Counseling Function • Network w City and County Government

Getting Started • Strategic Meetings – Dean’s Council – Establish CF Steering Group +… • Initial Conference/Workshop w Outside and Inside Speakers (FC Faculty/Staff, CSUF, Businesses, Government, etc. ) • Campus Seminar(s) on Futures Topics • CF Strategic Plan

Early Activities • • ID Faculty “Champion” Advisory Team (Internal and External) Futures Speakers Bureau Informal Futures Seminars Develop CF Website Online Forum and Newsletter Survey Business Interests

CF Groups/Personnel • Steering Group Staff Development Coordinator, one(+) Faculty, one Student, one Dean, VP Instruction (ex officio), others…? • Internal Advisory Group 2 -3 Faculty, one Student, one Dean, one Classified Staff, Staff Development Coordinator, others…? • External Advisory Group One FC Dean, CSUF rep, Other college/univ. , City govt, County govt, 2 -3 Business reps, Open position, others…?

Issues for Discussion • Faculty interest? • Connections? • “Future Day”?

Futures Resources • Institute of the Future, Anne Arundel CC, Maryland: http: //www. aacc. edu/future/default. cfm • World Future Society: http: //www. wfs. org/ • Prof. Roger Caldwell, Univ of Arizona, Class Website: http: //cals. arizona. edu/futures/ • Hawaii Center for Futures Studies: http: //www. futures. hawaii. edu/ • Bruce’s Strategy Page: http: //staffwww. fullcoll. edu/bcordell/strategy. htm