This week’s Substack resource provides an outline for a workshop that brings together faculty to explore one of the most pressing challenges in contemporary higher education: how to design courses that remain meaningful, rigorous, and relevant in a rapidly changing world.
Through a series of structured provocations and collaborative discussions, participants will examine the forces — technological, economic, and cultural — likely to shape the fields our students will enter. We will interrogate assumptions about who our students are, what knowledge is worth teaching, and how learning itself needs to evolve. Crucially, we will stress-test our emerging curriculum design against plausible futures, surfacing blind spots and productive disagreements along the way.
The session is designed not to produce a comfortable consensus, but to sharpen our collective thinking so that the course we build is genuinely fit for the futures our graduates will inhabit.
