Meeting (2019-10-03) - Initial Meeting of Year


 

Meeting Time:       Oct. 3rd, 10am - noon (Pacific)

Meeting Location: South Hall 2509 (Transcriptions Center) 

Meeting Zoom:     We'll use Alan's "instant" Zoom ID (our default meeting Zoom):  https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/760-021-1662

 


 

0. Preliminary Business

 

 

Purpose of today's meeting

 

 

1. The State of the Project

(Note: we may need to jump to meeting agenda items 2-3 below first if there are people who need to leave the meeting early).

 

 

 

2. Creating Teams to Address Research Questions

 

Main Public Goals (addressed to the public or to humanities advocates addressing the public):

Provide a richer stock of themes, narratives, examples, and evidence types that can be drawn upon in discussing the humanities, whether at the policy level (e.g., how society should apportion investment in STEM versus humanities education) or at the individual or social level (e.g., how parents and students talk to each other about what life or career is about).

 

Provide recommendations for humanities advocacy in the form of executive summaries addressed to different sectors of the public (journalists, politicians, business leaders, parents, students) and best-practices advice (e.g., avoiding untrue or overused themes in public discussion of the humanities, and drawing connections between the humanities and themes of interest to the public).

 

Provide resource “kits” of themes, examples, and evidence for journalists, scholars, and administrators to draw on in discussing the humanities; or for students to draw on as they consider choosing a major and discussing it with parents....

For the public, WE1S will provide research-based examples and analyses of themes, narratives, metaphors, evidence, and value statements about the humanities, together with links to readings in the original journalistic material. In addition, WE1S will create resources and recommendations to help guide discussion about the humanities by journalists, politicians, business people, university administrators, parents, and students.

 

 

 

3. Creating (or continuing) Other Task Teams

Members of the research questions teams above will also be engaged as time allows on the following work. (We'll see who is interested, and ask them to create a rough timeline or outline of main activities for the year)

 

 

Planning for Future Meetings