Nov 8 2014 Monthly Business Meeting Minutes for World
University and School
Present: Larry Viehland, Scott MacLeod (head clerk and
recording clerk)
Minute –
Dirk N. – meeting with Scott in the AFSC hive
meeting space in SF, and then in Cocolet cafe meeting on Thursday November 6 in
Berkeley can get $5,000 for BPPE for WUaS, and possibly more for WASC senior
initial fees
Minute -
Larry Viehland will begin to complete the BPPE forms
Minute –
WUaS will further draw up business planning documents:
budgeting expenses for -
- BPPE
- WASC senior
- NACAC
- Common App
- (MIT?) graduate student interns and other
interns
- outreach - advertising
Minute –
Friend Rolene Walker in SF is not interested in
being WUaS executive director.
Minute –
If international WUaS friends and Universitians are
interested in participating in WUaS monthly business meeting, WUaS will return
to holding monthly business meeting in group video conferencing, such as in
Google + Hangouts.
November 8, 2014 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World
University and School
World University and School
{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long
meeting)
Saturday, November 8, 2014
9 a.m., Pacific Time
Email here if you'd like to participate:
worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com
1. Welcome and Greetings
1.1 News:
News:
a
WUaS is
collaborating with "The International Society of Service Innovation
Professionals, ISSIP (pronounced iZip)." WUaS is helping to develop
and offer ISSIP Grand Challenges (see: http://www.issip.org/grand-challenges/ and http://www.issip.org/grand-challenge-for-issip-members-and-world-university-and-school/) as a kind of service innovation. I had an hour long Google +
group video conversation on Friday 10/31 with University of New Hampshire
Professor of Electrical Engineering Andrzej Rucinski (and ISSIP ambassador) who
spoke on behalf of the ISSIP Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge, while I
spoke on behalf of World University and School as an ISSIP grand challenge. For
example, Andrzej would like to engage WUaS within the ISSIP Grand Challenge's
framework, and in conjunction with ISSIP executive director Yassi, which is
great. Here, for example, is the Poland World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poland - which might come into conversation in many ways with his
low hanging fruit, as well as be a first example of developing a Nation State's
accrediting MIT OCW-centric WUaS.
These ISSIP Grand
Challenges offer exciting possibilities for collaboration, and this is a great
first example. Here are video excerpts from an hour long conversation on
Friday 10/31 about two current main ISSIP Grand Challenges -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/11/birch-species-grand-challenges.html - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/11/grand-challenges-prescription-for.html. Both posts are slightly different.
b
WUaS is re-scheduling
its "Brainstorming - "Information Technology, the Network Society,
and the Global University"" course from Saturdays to Tuesdays from
11a-1p - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/09/information-technology-network-society.html. Participants are welcome in an ongoing way. Come explore
Harvard's virtual island in Second Life by getting an avatar, and also join in
a Google + group video Hangout to see what they're like, and learn about the
information age.
c
BPPE documentation
(Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education in the state of California) is
next to be submitted toward WUaS accreditation toward receiving
undergraduate applications for this autumn 2015 for free (since C.C.) MIT
OCW-centric bachelors’ degrees.
Students will be
taking 32 of these courses over 4 years - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - for free (C.C.) and MIT-centric, online, accrediting,
WUaS undergraduate degrees, in English, (then in other languages - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/).
The College at
World University and School -
1.2 Minutes
2. Committees
2.1 Planning committee
see Master plan and Business plan below
2.1.1
2.2 Finance
a.
Treasurer's report for October 2014
b.
Dirk N.
WUaS's business model relies on people donating
WUaS's main risk is that we're not successful
...
this is a high risk proposition
If we were to get a loan of $20,000
and we ultimately failed, a lender could lose
$20,000 -
you could lose a lot of money
In terms of credentials ... say we don't get
become an accredited school school
So, again WUaS's business model relies on people
donating
where people can write off donations as 501 c 3,
and which tax write offs could be much more of a savings than any possible loan
which we could default on at your loss, and which isn't also in our business
model
Before WUaS's accepts the money, you've got to
realize how how risky doing so is as a loan, but by donating money to WUaS, he
would save 1/3rd of this money from taxes - but losing such money would only
happen after WUaS's fail ...
WUaS will further draw up a document ...
c.
budget expense for (MIT?) graduate student and
other interns
d.
budget expense for outreach - advertising
2.3 Information Technology
a.
Scott installed database at
worlduniversityandschool.org
b.
IBM
Brimeura: "IBM Global University Director
Jim Spohrer writes:" - MacLeod IBM global university faculty 1 page
proposal Spohrer, Artificial Intelligence developments viz. parallel
computation, big data, and better algorithms
c.
Aquilegia: "In what ways might it be
possible to explore beginning a new Wikidata/Wikipedia languages' complementary
project with the languages engineering team, namely CC World University and
School, which is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT OCW (planned for 7,106+
languages and 242+ countries)?", Saving, preserving and generating
knowledge in all languages (7,106 languages - 287 Wikipedia languages = 6,819+
other languages) as online MIT OCW-centric wiki schools
2.4 WUaS Outreach
Autumn 2014 planning
a.
need students -
Woolman Semester gap semester outreach ?
Western Friend magazine parent outreach ...
b.
- apply to BPPE and pay initial fees
c.
- apply to WASC senior and pay initial fees -
d.
- apply to Common Application, first becoming
member of the NACAC (National Association for College Admission Counseling)
- http://www.nacacnet.org/ in January 2015
2.5 Hiring planning
John M. - executive director?
2.6 Fundraising
- Have offer of $5,000 to pay for BPPE fees
2.7 Nominating committee
Seeking committee members, facilitators and
recorders
2.8 Languages' and Countries’ committee
Andrzej R.? - Poland, Polish
Gerard M.? - Holland, Dutch
Joan O.? - Kenya, Swahili
Larry M.? - Tunisia
2.9 Accreditation committee
2.9.1
BPPE
2.9.2
WASC senior
2.9.3
Common Application / NACAC - how to get on their
list of schools? Costs?
2.9.4
Become member of NACAC for Common Application
3. WUaS Master Plan
4. WUaS Business Plan
5. WUaS Board
- is looking for a new Board member to focus
WUaS fundraising
6. New WUaS pages and updates
a. Updates:
b. New pages:
c. Blog entries:
November 7, 2014
Brimeura: "IBM Global University Director
Jim Spohrer writes:" - MacLeod IBM global university faculty 1 page
proposal Spohrer, Artificial Intelligence developments viz. parallel
computation, big data, and better algorithms
November 5, 2014
Bindweed: Has WUaS "considered the idea of
a payment to Yale for the right to use one or more of their courses on your
World University site"?, Creative Commons' licensed knowledge
generativity, Non CC Yale Schools and Yale OYC, Hope these courses will all be
streamable on TV and also anticipate people with all kinds of disabilities (see
WUaS "Assistive Technologies," toward the undergraduate WUaS degree
at "The College at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links
- accrediting on - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/, WUaS's open
monthly business meeting meets this Saturday
November 4, 2014
Carum flowers: What hoops do you have to hop
before asking for accreditation?
November 2, 2014
Marsh Earwort: WUaS, ISSIP Grand Challenges,
Conversation, "Poland World University and School," and low hanging
fruit
October 31, 2014
Aquilegia: "In what ways might it be
possible to explore beginning a new Wikidata/Wikipedia languages' complementary
project with the languages engineering team, namely CC World University and
School, which is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT OCW (planned for 7,106+
languages and 242+ countries)?", Saving, preserving and generating
knowledge in all languages (7,106 languages - 287 Wikipedia languages = 6,819+
other languages) as online MIT OCW-centric wiki schools
October 24, 2014
Lonicera Ciliosa Honeysuckle: Poland World
University and School, Prescription for Poland Grand Challenge at ISSIP, WUaS
Grand Challenge, Looking forward to further co-constituting conversation about
our Grand Challenges, One example of how many of all 242 Country World
University and Schools may begin
7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments
a
Dirk N. - AFSC hive meeting space in SF
Cocolet cafe meeting on Thursday November 6 in
Berkeley
can get $5,000 for BPPE for WUaS
b
Sue R - Tanzania - pilot WUaS school in Dar Es
Salam?
c
Ellen L - Belgium - I.B. math
d
Jared B. New Resource - and WUaS online
bookstore and SFFM?
e
WUaS students -
Woolman Semester events
Western Friend magazine
outreach - advertising
f
Friend Rolene Walker is not interested in being
WUaS executive director.
g
Michelle at SFFM - Genent. clinical trials? ...
WUaS is a Friendly-informed 501 c 3
8. Closure
9. Next Meeting - Saturday, December 13, 2014, 9
am Pacific Time
Scott MacLeod
President and Head Clerk
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Buglosse crépue: Nov 8 2014 Monthly Business Meeting Minutes and Agenda for World University and School
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/11/buglosse-crepue-nov-8-2014-monthly.html
November 8, 2014 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/11/november-8-2014-monthly-business.html
Apid den Bermejo: November 8, 2014 Monthly Business Meeting for World University and School (open, electronically-mediated and hour-long), ISSIP-WUaS Grand Challenges, "Brainstorming - "Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University"", MIT OCW-centric "The College at World University and School"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/11/apid-den-bermejo-november-8-2014.html
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