unit 2 Personal Site Response (PSR)

The author of this article sends a message that the American audience has an expectation of university campus to be totally different from other learning facilities- an arena that should have a look to portrait a quality academic life and a perfect representation of the community in which the campus exists. Today’s university is perceived as to have resilient places, and more than academic upgrade, classroom additions, and its academic buildings; a site that comprises of holistic learning spaces, with the fact that learning is a life long and year round pursuit which takes place throughout the campus, and not just a fragmented indoors in designated instructional spaces. “Only one fifth of a student’s time is spent in classroom”, contributing about one fourth of the learning variance. This reinforcement was done by Rodloff.

As a matter of fact, the word ‘campus’ derived from Latin word for field. “Early American colleges and universities were self sufficient and often built in rural locations with dormitories, dining halls, and recreation facilities”, (Bowman, 2011). The high expectation and college experience today has created stimulating and demanding times in students’ lives, where a multitude of curricular and extra curricular situation require heavy use of direct, focused attention and concentration.

Campus landscapes as learning spaces, are essential for better provision of conducive facility, but they should not be taken over the importance of college students’ professional success.

Assignment: Unit 3 Reading

General outlines: staircase, hall, buildings, open space. The idea that universities are investing in big, high-tech buildings in the hope of evoking high-tech thinking is successful. The evidence that Lange uses is materials used in the passage. For example, she uses objects and structure to broaden the emphasis that proximity and conversation can produce creative ideas. Yes, the evidence is effective. The building , # 20- The warren office building produces man breakthrough through proximity.The rationales of these buildings are varied: Employers are not satisfied with graduate preparation, students are unhappy with outdated teaching methods, colleges want to  attract students with tasty vision and whose skillful ideas might come in handy on campus.

Recognizing campus landscapes as learning spaces

The continue growth in number of students enrolling in 2- or 4-year colleges and universities create unique twenty-first century changes and challenges for American higher education institutions.

The high cost of quality education, the need for increased universal and open access make US university systems more diverse, changing and complex.(paragraph I).

Technology, the growing population of 2- or 4-year college and university students, the high cost of quality education, and the need for open access in the diverse society, create vast changes and challenges for US university systems.