An anecdote reflecting the level of change at the grass roots level was reported by the architecture studio of our College of Environmental Design. The studio is conducted in parallel with a similar studio at the National University in Athens. The two institutions work on the same project overcoming the barrier of being 5000 miles away.
Students can post their design solutions for the instructors and classmates to review.
The wife of a student in that course was expecting a baby. The student went to Indiana to be with his wife and still was able to continue his participation in the studio. The software CU See Me allowed teleconferencing through Internet and provides chart rooms for instantaneous feedback. The seat time is still very intense for the design studio, but the distance issue is resolved. The success story on which we want to focus here, however, has been the effort to achieve campus wide buy-in and legitimacy for the change agenda.