Re: WUaS February 11, 2012 Business Meeting minutes
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World University and School
Open, hour-long Business Meeting – Minutes
Saturday, February 11, 2012
9 am, Pacific Time
Present: Larry Viehland, Scott MacLeod, Dan Kottke
Scott MacLeod, recording clerk
Welcome
Approve the January minutes?
1 Items from last agenda
- Scott has a call in to his friend whose family trust recently contributed $150 to WUaS, to inquire
whether they (and friends) might be available to funding specific projects, like accreditation for
example.
- Accreditation – see below …
- Chatham is on hold for the autumn 2012
2 Finance
Treasurer's report
Invitation to giving to WUaS
Dan:
Dan will find out about Sebastian Thrun's Udacity's fundraising approaches.
3 Inviting new Board members, and Board engagement
Larry:
Invite members to share the WUaS vision:
Develop relationship before asking and, for example, invite possible Board Members to a Board
meeting …
e.g. “Why don't you come and listen and try participating in the Business Meeting first?”
Dan:
For Dan, it's the online education space which interests him, e.g. Nolan Bushnell's for-profit models
interested him .
It's the model which interests him; it's the model that 'describes' what's going to happen …
Scott:
World University & School's model involves offering free, online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D.
degrees accrediting on MIT OCW, while also remaining open, and developing in 3,000-8,000
languages, with Membership and Philanthropy as key sources of funding.
4 MIT trip report (January 25-29, 2012)
Summary:
Scott MacLeod met with and talked with Karl Koster (executive director of MIT Industrial Relations,
Steve Carson (External Relations director of MIT OCW, chair of Board of OCWC), Joi Ito (head of
Media Lab), and Charlie Nesson (Harvard Law Professor and founder of Berkman Center for Internet
and Society at Harvard Law School)
Per Karl Koster:
MIT Industrial Relations office uses a membership model, where companies contribute to his office
$60,000 per annum, and have access to MIT Professors and students, through conferences, too, (where
some pay, for example, $1700 per conference)
Per Steve over lunch:
MIT OCW is different and separate from new MITx; no plans for collaboration that I heard
MIT OCW is committed for the next 10 years, with no mission or plan for other languages
MIT OCW said they'd send fee waiver for fees to Open Course Ware Consortium; OCWC membership
is $500 per year
WUaS is planning to offer free, online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees accrediting on MIT
OCW
MIT doesn't have and has never offered Law or Medical degrees, and could adapt pretty easily MIT
OCW for this.
For WUaS, joining Open Course Ware Consortium OCW offers credibility for fundraising, and a
possible way to engage OCWC software and web development
Scott sees networking with MIT OCW, OCWC in so many ways as the best course ahead, including for
scheduling, wiki development (if possible in Media Wiki – if Scott, for example, can help become a
planner of their web sites development at OCWC), and developing WUaS in 3,000-8,000 languages,
and will continue to communicate with Steve Carson about ways to further this.
5 WUaS Membership
$500 per organization?
$50,000 per country or company?
per MIT which asks $60,000 as membership from companies
Scott:
Like MIT, and in collaborating with MIT OCW and MIT, WUaS could put our companies in touch with
MIT (and Stanford, Harvard – Mankiw?, Yale, Princeton) professors, which WUaS made connections
with.
6 Accreditation
a. It's a three stage process – see http://www.wascsenior.org/resources/eligibility
b. Jim Leontis, founder of Pacific School of Law, where Dan went to Law School.
Dan said he would invite me and Jim Leontis to lunch, to talk, in part, about Pacific School of Law and
Jim's experiences with accreditation there.
c. The American Bar Association doesn't allow law classes online, but Larry Kramer, Dean of Stanford
Law School, said he would try to change that, in personal conversation with Scott in January 2012.
(Accreditation in another country? - Steve Carlson) … 50-100 accredited WUaS law schools would
benefit Internet Law, and students and even companies in America, significantly.
7 Fundraising
Specific grants
Board suggestions:
Larry:
look locally … for foundations. People like to give locally.
Dan:
Talk to people on Sandhill Road, in Silicon Valley / Menlo Park
Larry said he would ask people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
8 New blog?
Larry suggested one which might
Address students
Address funders, board members, etc …
Dan:
suggested to me that I pick my top three WUaS models for this WUaS universities' customers, and
describe
Scott:
governments
companies
philanthropists
Scott:
All three of the following offer free, or very low cost university education, due to a different 'social
contract' than the current one in the U.S.
1 K-12 students at public schools in the U.S. and, for example, students, for example, Jeremy and Reily
mentioned Jeremy (13 years old) and Reily (10 years old), sons of friends who also attended Reed
College, and whose mother graduated in chemistry there, and whose grandfather has a MIT Ph.D. in
science, as examples of first students at 2014. Free degrees based on MIT OCW are attractive. Their
parents have already been helpful, and Scott with invite them for further engagement.
2 Japanese students
3 German students
4 WUaS would like a very diverse student body working on MIT OCW degrees, for degrees, from at
least 50-100 countries.
Here's the new World Univ & Sch, - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/ - but it isn't
editable presently, perhaps because Google suspended the personal side of
worldunivers...@gmail.com 's G+ profile, -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts - leaving the
WUaS side active. All of this is accessible from http://scottmacleod.com/ and here
http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm .
Scott will inquire about getting this blog working, as well as focus on developing the G+ profile which
might help address the specific groups more effectively.
9 Next Business Meeting
Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 9 am Pacific Time
10 Closure
Sincerely,
Scott MacLeod
(Recording clerk at WUaS)
February 11, 2012, Business Meeting Minutes for World University and School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
Google + profile -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts
All of this is accessible from http://scottmacleod.com/ accessible here
http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm .
Hi, All,
Here are the World University and School minutes from today's Business Meeting on February 12, 2012, as an attachment, as well as in the body of this email.
The next WUaS Business Meeting is sceduled for Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 9 am Pacific Time.
Happy university. :)
Sincerely
Scott
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(like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware)
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
P.O. Box 442,
(86 Ridgecrest Road),
Canyon, CA 94516
415 480 4577
worldun...@scottmacleod.com
worldunivers...@gmail.com
Google + main, WUaS page:
https://plus.google.com/108179352492243955816/
Please contribute, and invite friends to contribute, tax deductibly, via PayPal and credit card:
http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm
World University and School is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'remove' in the subject line. Thank you.