Class 25: 5 minute presentations + mission workshopping

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For our twenty-fifth class on April 3, 2017 we met at 2pm in 901 NAB. Dempzil, Stefany, Anamika, Xavier, Mayaan, Ian, Sarah, Magnus, Delaney

Photos

  • Class looking at work by Dempzil

  • Reading on "Peter Cooper and his Glue" presented by Dempzil

  • Xavier screening his animation of the Foundation Building

  • Mayaan presenting a rendering of her redesigned Peter Cooper Park

  • Continuing to workshop Cooper's Draft Mission Statement by tallying everyone's three most important words

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4/2/17: Class 25: 5 minute presentations + mission discussion + studio visits

Hi Projects class,

See at 2pm on Monday 4/3!

  • 5 minutes*

We'll get started on the 5-minute project presentations from everybody. If you're feeling stuck or your project feels outdated, speak to what you'd like to be doing now and going forward =E2=80=94 what feels actionabl= e or meaningful now? Also maybe name a project or two that feels adjacent to your work.

  • Mission*

We'll also spend ~an hour of class continuing our ongoing discussion around the mission. The plan is to devote a little bit of class time each week to this through the end of the semester, as a shared project for grounding and processing.

For more on the history and purpose of the mission, check out this amazing PDF prepared by librarian Julie Castelluzzo: "Mission Vision 1988 - 2015[1]" with ~60 pages of research. Julie is currently serving on the Mission and Goals subcommittee of the Middle States accreditation process[2].

It's also worth briefly perusing CUAA's index of candidate bio/statements[3] to get a sense of who's running for Alumni Association Council and Alumni Trustee positions. Each candidate had to write a kind of personal mission statement about what Cooper means to them and how they see themselves contributing.

  • Studio visits*

Monday 4/3

* *11:30am* OPEN * *12:15pm* Jakey (611) * *1:00pm *Xavier (616) * *5:15pm* Raphael * *6:00pm *Rachel (2nd floor back corner by day's office) * *6:45pm* Dempzil (9?)

Monday 4/10

* *11:30am* Magnus (211) * *12:15pm *Lulu (614 across from emily) * *1:00pm *Anamika * *5:15pm* Cecilia (416 4th floor foundation) * *6:00pm *Ray * *6:45pm *OPEN

Links:

  1. http://library.cooper.edu/tf/mission-vision_1988-2015.pdf
  2. https://cooper.edu/about/middle-states
  3. http://cooperalumni.org/election-2017/