Area	university excellence

	the college experience gary e. davis	February 7, 2019

Universities that are split into undergraduate colleges do so for good reasons of student opportunities for growth. In complement to this, community colleges should have strong relations with nearby 4-year colleges with an aggressive transfer program that hallmarks the community college as part of a 4-year experience. “Collegiate” teaching is collegial teaching, where more chances for mutuality and collaboration emerge. Student life is easier in the small-college experience; and can be as rich as the large campus in metro areas, especially inasmuch as a community college is identified with a university society nearby. Counseling relationships are easier to sustain in “neighborhood” settings. States pay later for drop-out rates, in terms of underemployment and social services, which unwittingly promotes moving out of a state, which causes a state to lose its investment—except inasmuch as higher education is aggressively supported at a national level as a great public good, not just as a support to regional economies. In any case, a grand mission of societies is to develop greater distribution of higher qualities of life, which depend on higher education. Regional economies in a global commons cannot stay competitive without the collaborative creativity and capability for flexibie adaptability that higher education enables. More importantly, idealism matters, but only stays alive through intergener-ational subscription. Student desire to stand for values depends on the alignment of selfidenty with best practices that serve their life-centered aims, which are scaled up by inspired teaching. Life-relevant, selfidentical values are the basis for fidelity to ideals that make systems progressive. Conceptual ambition serves interest in scaling up identification with high values and serves to scaffold project-ive partnerships for collaborative creativity. Discursive vitality enables and advances grand prospects, which give persons good reason to strive. The college town, infused with another generation, prompts the ethos of pop culture to become a power of social virtue in civic space. Discursive vitality infuses social media with truly democratic hope, which is vital for good futures. The university is the garden of progressive promise. We face the dark cosmos (no gods to descend to certify eternal meaning) by wanting to make the best life that we can in order to enjoy being well, exploring, working, and mattering as long as possible. There will be no sustainable future without advancing the appeal of global public goods, ecohabitation, ensuring that political power is “good,” and sustaining progressive communities.

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