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The Broncos’ Voice February 1994 The Idea of the University ttiil 'SSli The Distant Drummer. by Earl J. Moniz To this point in our de velopment of an ideal uni versity, have selected, employed, and organized both staff and faculty who are primarily concerned with providing the best pos sible education opportunities for each student while elimi nating much of the distrac tions not conducive to effec tive learning. The task at hand now becomes where and how do we get students to fill the classrooms and take advantage of all the ef forts that have been exerted to this point? The university experience is also a social opportunity. Individuals who attend the university should also expect to be exposed to other indi viduals from diversified and far-reaching cultures and traditions. For this reason, social adjustments and ac tivities of prospective stu dents should also be re viewed. The records of pro spective students should demonstrate a willingness to become involved with com munity efforts to raise the level of social and economic opportunities on behalf of all citizens. Students should arrive with open minds anxious to learn social and economic lessons from human history and from diverse cultural traditions that will enable them to lead lives of decency and compassion for all man kind. They should all be prepared to learn to use their knowledge in the strengthening of the fabric of their own communities once they graduate and be gin their lives in the world of work. Students should not come to experience the university in an effort to re inforce the commitment to their own individual preju dices, biases, and narrow minded views of the world but should be prepared to learn, grow, change, and in culcate in themselves the promise of a better tomor row, not only for them selves but also for ev eryone whom they will have the op portunity to influence. Just as the university staff and fac ulty should set the aca demic and social ex amples in their class rooms for their stu dents, so should these students at tempt to emulate these ex amples during their stay at the university and cultivate the proper law-abiding and civil behavior in their own lives when they graduate and return to their own com munities. Many university students tend to believe that the uni versity is a training school of sorts. They only come to learn an occupational spe cialty that will gain them advanced employment upon graduation. The opportunity to continue to grow, learn, and change is often over looked by students. Many have grown up in an atmo sphere where high school graduation is the end of their formal educational pro cess. They overlook the fact that the university is an op portunity above and beyond what is required by society to survive and prosper. Many forget, or have never learned, that the educational process throughout one’s life never ends, and neither does the op- portunity for growth and change. Becoming an edu cated per son cannot be a desti nation; it must al ways be considered a journey without end. Inter- e s t i n g 1 y enough, the greatest mys tery of life isn’t learned and truly understood until just immediately after a person’s life ends. In that sense we can say the learning is not only a lifelong endeavor but also something that takes place even after death. In the final analysis, the university should attempt to recruit students who are academically and socially competent and who view the university experience as an opportunity to learn how to become lifelong learners. These students should also view the university experi "Individuals who attend the university should also expect to he exposed to other individuals from diversified and far- reaching cultures and traditions" ence as an opportunity to mold themselves into edu cated and contributing mem bers of society. Graduates also understand how these molds are formed for not hesitate to break their old molds and begin to form new molds at any time in their lives. The phrase ’’^change is the only constant is of ten heard throughout one’s university experience. A truly educated person will always ensure that these changes being sought are for the better and do not cre ate more problems than they solve. If life is a series of pa rades through which we march to the beat of our own drummer, then certainly the university is the place where we learn to fine tune our individual hearing to discern and recognize that drumbeat amidst the daily cacophonies of life. The university ex perience also provides the students the opportunity to learn to march in that pa rade without interfering with any of the other participants...or detracting from the overall significance of the entire event. At this point in our de liberations, the university is manned with an educated, helpful, cooperative, and willing staff and faculty. Students enrolled are aca demically and socially active and curious. They are will ing to take advantage of ev ery learning opportunity af forded them during their stay at the university. What do we do next? Is that all there is to a university: teaching and learning? Should it do more? Can it do more?
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