Sunday, September 18, 2005
Continuing discussion with NMHU faculty
Discussion within the scholarly community about W3C
standards à
Communication from faculty at NMHU
Dear Dr. Prueitt,
By mistake, my email address
seems to have been included in your recent emails, and I really have no idea
about the subject or these issues. Could you please delete me from your email
list. Thank you.
Dr. Helen Aparicio Blythe
Director of Graduate Studies in English
English Program, Department
of Humanities
New Mexico Highlands
University,
Box 9000 Las Vegas, NM 87701
Open letter, may be published
Professor Blythe
With respects.
One can not know what something is about if there is no communication. In my work I use a process development methodology called AIC, for Appreciation, Influence and Control. see www.odii.com
One can also see that many core problems in many universities arise through compartmentalization and "professionalism". This area is a well researched area of scholarship on university governance.
The issue, I was rising, was to be about the state of liberal arts instruction within the school system, within the American academy (university system), and specifically about the nature of computer science domination of freshman courses in mathematics.
I suggest, respectfully, that scholarly discussion about the issues is not the same as a professional discussion. Scholarship and professionalism have different purposes and natures. The separation can be most noticed when there is a code of silence regarding problems that the university. In some case faculty who have spoken out, or who wished to speak out, have been fired or intimidated. NMHU has all of the signs that it has become dysfunction, with respect to the teaching of the freshman courses.
The computer science group at NMHU, in my professional and scholarly opinion, is involved in the development of a graduate curriculum focusing on the continued exploitation of our society by Information Technology. See [educational renewal]
My foundation has extensive work on this problem:
http://www.bcngroup.org/area2/KSF/nationalProject.htm
as well as extensive work on how computer science might be shaped to serve the entire spectrum of our American society.
The computer science domination of the mathematics group is layered on top of a 50 year old crisis in American mathematics education.
The linkage to language studies and literature can be easily made, if you are interested.
With respects Dr Paul Prueitt
Founder www.virtualTaos.net,