For the final meeting of our New School History ULEC, students, in teams, were tasked with generating an "agenda for the new president" rooted in our history. Not many did. We'd thought this was a way of making the history matter, that by raising the stakes (we will offer a
report to the incoming president) we might feel empowered and engage more. But a ULEC is still a ULEC, lowest priority for busy students. And inciting them to think not only historically but institutionally proved too hard an ask for them even to fake it. Some cute slides, slim pickings.
For the final meeting of our New School History ULEC, students, in teams, were tasked with generating an "agenda for the new president" rooted in our history. Not many did. We'd thought this was a way of making the history matter, that by raising the stakes (we will offer a
