Survey on conservation education and training for emerging conservators

In a recent address, Earl Lewis, President of the Mellon Foundation,
asks the question: Why learn?  What does it mean to be educated?

He asks: Is higher education worth it?  The costs, the failures, the
frustrations and the time?  The stakes are now higher.  His lecture
revolved around five themes:

    Higher education has a remarkable history of adaptation and
    change

    The need will only continue to grow

    The growth will require new habits from both students and the
    schools they attend

    He says that universities must resist the temptation to divide
    themselves between STEM and the Humanities

    Higher education must tackle today's grand challenges; it must
    not be self-contained, but out in the world

Persistent segregation according to ethnicity and gender is wasting
talent.  He challenges Universities to move away from a selection
process that relies on standardized testing.  But rather focus on
student learning and how they learn in different ways in the
disciplines.  Thinking about the future then, he asks; what are the
collective strategies and best practices that can be researched,
examined, and replicated?  He describes education as being a beauty
and a beast: it is expensive, bureaucratic, and is not producing
job-ready graduates.

He discusses the demographic shift currently underway and challenges
Universities to change in anticipation of increasing diversity.  The
next generation will need to be able to collaborate to be truly
successful.  In particular to produce well-rounded individuals who
can communicate outside of their narrow field of expertise.  If you
are considering a career in cultural preservation or know someone
who is, please forward this survey.  We'd like to hear from them.

The survey is open until May 31, 2016

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