She is nationally known and traveled, having almost exclusively worked in this field for the last seven or eight years. While she appropriately described the difficulties associated with distance education, her talk was gratifying to those of us working this issue in state. We are addressing the right issues, in the right order, and arriving at good solutions. Wednesday I met with UAA retirees. This is a great idea attributable to Lee Gorsuch.
Retirees are a great source of both support and wisdom.
We ought to do more in the future to organize and utilize such groups. Talking to such a group is a wonderful experience, tempered only by the evidence that these groups do not know as much about the University as one would hope. Again, from friends and former colleagues one may hear echoed the cocktail party one-liners that haunt us. I joined the Performance Based Assessment Conference to talk to a group of excited and energy packed students. When I told them about their state University they cheered.