next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). 
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in 
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's 
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (
Matt Baum (The Colonnade): “GCSU [Georgia College & State U] is set to enact a new and approved advising plan for students and professors as part of a system-wide initiative among schools in the University System of Georgia. The new system that will include, among other things, an online advising handbook for each major and a ‘clear academic advising mission statement, will take affect [sic] sometime in July of this year and will be fully functional for the incoming freshmen class in the fall. This initiative is coming from the chancellor of the University System of Georgia,’ said Shaina McGill, the senior ‘director of advising and retention on campus.
“Several school presidents had expressed concern over their schools’ present advising systems.’ The new system will enable a student to essentially be able to map out all the requirements that are needed to graduate from day one. A lot of pressure will be put on individual departments to post program maps, advisor roles and responsibilities and plenty of proactive links to allow the students to stay on top of what they needed to complete their degree, but ultimately, the success of the program will be on the president of the university.” (“GCSU to adopt new advising policy,” 14 March 2008)
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