Dean Lynch's newest blog

It's a goal of mine to get this blog a bit more Ithaca-centered, hence the Ithaca-related websites topping the links on the right. So in that spirit, I present the following:

Many people probably know that Dianne Lynch, Dean extrodinaire of the Park School at IC, keeps a blog, All Things Park, where she can post updates and announcements about all sorts of projects and developments in the Park School. She's even mentioned Buzzsaw there before.

What I did not know, and I assume many others do not know, is that she has also started another blog, Designing Park. Its premiere, and thus far only, post was written on Sunday, Jan 22nd, where Dean Lynch posted links to a PDF of a presentation she made as well as a set of slides about enrollments, provided to her by Larry Metzger, vp of enrollment planning.

I've heard rumors and rumblings of a movement to restructure the curriculum at Park, and I'd say that this new blog indicates that the discussion is just beginning, and hopefully it will be an interactive one for the entire academic community (students, faculty, and administrators) who have a vested interest in the decisions that are made around the "design" of our college's educational direction.

As was brought up by Students for Park, which was spearheaded by Buzzsaw's own Jeremy Levine and Kate Sheppard, I hope that the voice of students is not lost in this conversation.

As for now, I'm going to add her new blog to our list of links.

- Glitter