Summary of Recommendations for Change

Abstract

This book makes three basic recommendations. First, all degree programs should make room for a curriculum that deals with leadership—both in skills such as communication and in the understanding of the human situation. This curriculum will be especially heavy in the humanities: writing, speaking, history, literature, philosophy. Second, teaching methods in all courses should foster independence and creativity. Any course can be modified to include an element of leadership experience if students are organized in teams with rotating leadership. Third, students everywhere in higher education should be allowed time to flourish outside the classroom in existing clubs or in organizations that they start themselves. At the same time, older organizations that segregate by sex or race should be phased out as quickly as possible.