NEXT-GENERATION LEARNING

New opportunities for faculty to hone their skills in handling contentious social issues in class, engaging racial and gender diversity, indigenizing courses and curriculum, and utilizing Universal Design for Learning. And efforts to better ensure inclusive access to the opportunities afford by higher learning regardless of age, gender, sexuality, disability, socioeconomic status, ethnic or religious background, etc.

Wicked problems are highly complex societal challenges where there is little consensus around the nature of the problem; where causes, effects, and interdependencies are difficult to disentangle; and where existing methods, processes and policies to address the problem have proven inadequate. Wicked problems, by their very nature, need to be understood and addressed from the perspective of multiple disciplines, and with collaboration between multiple stakeholders.