{"id":847,"date":"2019-12-02T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=847"},"modified":"2019-12-02T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:20:14","slug":"big-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2019\/12\/big-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Washington\u2019s innovative, public liberal arts college, what \u201cBIG bets\u201d do we need to take to imagine a vibrant path that will attract new students, enhance our reputation, and reclaim Evergreen\u2019s place as a national model for higher education? How do we turn around enrollment declines to reclaim our leadership in supporting ALL learners to thrive in career, citizenship, and their communities?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bring your best ideas<\/strong> to one of the four following \u201cBlue Sky\u201d conversations hosted by the Learning and Teaching Commons next week.\u00a0Our collective creative thinking is needed to plan for Evergreen\u2019s future!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday, December 2nd | 3-5 PM | Sem II C2105<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, December 5th | 3-5 PM | Sem II A2105<\/li>\n<li>Friday, December 6th | 9-11 AM | Sem II A3105 NEW!<\/li>\n<li>Friday, December 6th | 1-3 PM | Sem II A3105<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Additional opportunities to join this conversation are being planned for Week 2 in Winter Quarter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>What is a BIG bet?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BIG bets<\/strong> have the promise to attract hundreds of students not currently choosing Evergreen; offer opportunities for new revenue streams; and align with future demographic and market trends.\u00a0 BIG bets transcend the scale of new Evergreen academic programs.<\/p>\n<p><em>What new structures could we create?\u00a0 What new pedagogical approaches should we consider?\u00a0 What exciting new academic areas\/fields or combinations of fields could we offer? What new groups of students should we aim to serve?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Take your big idea\u2026.and make it BIGGER! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Community,<\/p>\n<p>Julia Metzker, Jen Drake, and Larry Geri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Washington\u2019s innovative, public liberal arts college, what \u201cBIG bets\u201d do we need to take to imagine a vibrant path&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}