Intellectual Intercourse

IDEA CRAP

As an instructor of a Peace and Conflict capstone, I am assaulted on a daily basis with questions of why the Idea program sucks so much, why students are forced to take it, whether it's just another way for the administration to make more money, etc.

I've read countless complaints.

I've listened to them in my class.

I really don't have a lot I can tell you.

So instead, I thought I would ask a simple question:

Out of anyone who has taken the idea program, did ANY of you have a positive experience with it? I'm not even talking about the process as a whole. I'm asking whether you have one day that meant something to you, where you learned something, or went somewhere and helped some people that you never would have otherwise.

I really just want to hear something positive.

However, I do fully agree that it doesn't work quite as it was actually intended... I'm sure that will be a rant for another day. Probably shortly after finals week, when I'm no longer employed by the University of South Dakota.

But if you have comments, positive or negative, I'd like to hear them.

Posted at 03:01AM Apr 08, 2008 by James Sabata in General  |  Comments[2]