Organizational Meeting
Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, 9am to 10:30
Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)
Agenda
- Goals
- Discuss topics with the opportunity of preparation, continuation and focus
- Group will determine topics and procedures
- Improve information gathering capabilities, please bring your suggestions
- Internet sources
- Traditional sources
- Mobile apps
- Other goals, suggestions welcome
- Procedures
- Possible Roles
- Conductor
- Secretary
- Topic Leader
- Fact Checker
- Use of blog
- Setup topic page to gather comments and background material
- Allow absentee participation
- Agenda for next meeting
- How to determine concensus
- Candidate Topics
- Social Conscience
- Inter-generational conversation
- Ethical issues - medical, social, business, political, etc
- Racism
- Criminal justice, prison population, mandatory sentencing
- How society can shape an individual's conscience
- Idealism
- Social conscience is harder is difficult times
- Economy
- Globalization
- Income inequity, shrinking middle class and social resentment
- Problems caused by short term business incentives
- Capitalism v. Socialism
- Politics
- Immigration
- Abortion
- Voting rights and the New Jim Crow
- Guns in America
- Foreign Policy
- Ways to reduce terrorism
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Yemen and al-Qaida
- Education
- More respect for the teaching profession
- Selection of majors, how the match or influence personality
- Security
- Loss of privacy
- Use of drones
- Wars, how they start, how to stop
- Health
- Increasing longevity, good or bad?
- Other Suggested Topics
- Determine topic for next meeting, on 9/19/2013
Dear Zoom-in Colleagues:
ReplyDeleteToday's meeting was informative and enjoyable. Several members expressed interest in the increased cost of higher education and other associated higher education problems. I suggest the following book on the topic. Jeffrey J. Selingo, "College (Un)Bounded: The Future of Higher Education and What it Means for Students." I selected this book on the subject after reading a review in the Wash Post that said it was the best of several books reviewed. Although no expert, I now feel more informed to handle questions that come up at cocktail parties or more likely at civic meetings.