The Quest for University Excellence
School of Athens
Philadelphia, PA
Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1790 Founder: University of Pennsylvania
19th Century German Model of Disciplinary Specialization (Humboldt)
Chemical Engineering
Enlightenment: Aufklarung
circa. 1700 Cambridge, England
University is 'peripatetic': No buildings, no athletics, no administration. circa 360 B.C.
Homo Quadratus
Party
Real Estate: Expansion of Campuses circa 2000
Coeducation
American College Life circa. 1978
circa 1500...Renaissance Man: Integral Humanism : Da Vinci, Ficino, Pico della Mirandola
The Florentine Academy
MEDIEVAL SCRIPTORIUM:
XX1st Century: What does it mean to be an excellent university?
Universitas-culture of learning, liberation, enlightenment: From Socrates to Phoenix Online; Emerging Trends
Exemplarity: Academic heroes
Interdisciplinarity: Geochemistry, History of Ideas
Globalization
Information Sciences: "Nowadays, information is our 'standing reserve'. (Michael Vicario, 11/6/12)
L:EXICON: MANUSCRIPTS COMMENTARY, LECTIO, MAGISTER-DISCIPULUS, scholasticism, St. Thomas Aquinas
circa. Paris 1250