With students having increasingly busy lives, it is not always possible for them to come to campus or have the kind of intellectual life that was traditionally associated with university campuses. That is the reality of the modern university student but is only just becoming the reality of the modern university campus.
“The Campus is Dead: Long Live The Campus“
Indeed, our modern culture tends to regard trees as consumables, or ornaments that we can move or remove at will.
“Do Trees Have Rights“?
In its series on the future of the university campus this week, The Conversation visualises the opposite of online learning as some kind of vanishing Hogwarts, illustrated very conventionally: a picture of one of Australia’s faux classical universities with its daft and out-of-place architecture, and its big spreading tree.
The older buildings at the university where I work look like a chain…
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