The consulting company would match the job with an available student, providing him or her with the chance to earn a little money while also developing a relationship with a faculty member. This would be a very different dynamic between student and faculty. It would start out as a small job, but the faculty would respect what the student brings to that job. Another area highlighted for change by the Task Force is the freshman curriculum. Dean Vandiver has ideas for gently attacking that front as well.
Students have many different preferred styles of learning.
They don't get to do the neat stuff until they're sophomores or later. This would be the perfect marriage of theory and application. There's no reason that foundation can't be learned with relevant application of problems. Dean Vandiver also talks of designing an academic experience that would bring together student residential life with the classroom. Since we're moving all freshmen on campus, that creates new opportunities.