{Open} Annual Business Meeting - Agenda
World University and School
Saturday, October 29, 2011
1 pm, Pacific Time
Four communication modalities:
- Attend in person in Canyon, California …
- Harvard's virtual island in Second Life ...
... http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/113/47/25
... (Aphilo Aarde is my avatar's name)
- Free Conference Call – 877 482 5838 ... (This is generally for Board Members, but if you're interested, WUaS will get you the code - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if interested).
- in a Google Hangout (with group video chat)
(worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com & Scott MacLeod
are the email address, and contact info., for Google + and Google Hangouts)
1
I'm sorry to say one of our WUaS 'officers,' as a nonprofit, is departing, due to health issues
WUaS needs a new CFO - Chief Financial Officer …
2
Metrics
WUaS has 423 pages, in English, and is growing steadily
WUaS also has the very beginnings of a Spanish university and school
3
Process
Open meetings, (as in the Society of Friends)
Monthly Business Meeting - 4th Saturday of the month, at Canyon and in a virtual world
Consensus Decision Making, for decision-making process ... referring to
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Consensus_Decision_Making
In many ways, I see us as all as WUaS clerks … so, facilitators in helping to grow WUaS …
4
Committee structure for decisions and process
Finance
Planning
Organization
Information technology
Languages (3,000-8,000)
etc.
5
Program / content for other universities
Chatham University plan ...
4 programs: Sustainable Agriculture, Engineering, Law and Medicine
6
Membership approach for WUaS
invite schools, countries and languages to become members, and remain open as wiki to all ...
7
Intern program - need monies
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Intern_positions
8
Accreditation (WUaS)
Bachelors, Ph.D., Law, and Medical degrees (M.D.)
in 50 - 100 countries
online teaching & learning hospital
(MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge universities' academic standard, accrediting consistently on MIT OCW)
Accreditation is a 3 stage process, and WUaS will potentially grant its first Bachelor degrees in 2017
... seeking to make free MIT OCW-based degrees to Quaker kids plus others ...
9
Job creation
WUaS would like to create a significant number of jobs worldwide,
in 3,00-8000 languages and in around 200 countries
10
Fundraising
11
Letting countries, languages, universities and individuals et al., know about WUaS
virtual presence ... virtual worlds
12
Information technology
MIT-recruiting
13
Music school development ... Juilliard liaison?
online, free instruction in many instruments, and all languages, vis-a-vis the Goethe Institute
online jamming
online choruses, symphony, gamelan
14
Closure
- Scott MacLeod
Head clerk
(Founder and President)
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/10/henderson-island-south-seas-uk-open.html - October 21, 2011)
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