[Oe List ...] Our Legacy: Next Steps?

[Gordon Harper]

Jaime --

"what happened to University 13?"

Well, my friend, you did, for one thing.

The administration changed at the University of Illinois / Chicago 
Circle campus in early '76, and the plan to partner the pilot there that 
fall sadly went with it.  However, something new was just emerging on 
the horizon.  That was our agreement with the Maharashtrangovernment to 
do human development replication across the State--and that meant a 
completely new educational vehicle had to be rapidly constructed to make 
this possible.

Many of our University 13 team morphed into the one that began work on 
that new entity during the '76 summer program.  I was part of the 
remarkable team then assigned to complete the design process and launch 
it in Maliwada in the fall of '76.  That new construct would become 
known as the Human Development Training Institute. Two years later, 
after having done eight of them in India, I would find myself, along 
with you and the Bishops, doing the first of two in Sudtonggan.

So, as former faculty of the HDTI, Jaime, you are in some sense a lineal 
descendant of University 13, just as those of us who worked on that 
project were of the Academy.  We had a rich inheritance on which to 
draw, did we not?

One of these days, I suspect I'll have to write up the saga of 
University 13.  It deeply engaged not just the few of us in Chicago from 
academic backgrounds who were assigned to work on it, but also a great 
number of our colleagues in universities across the country over the 
nearly two years that it was being developed.

But not tonight --

Gordon


On 12/18/2010 6:29 PM, Jaime Vergara wrote:
>
>     The programs we developed, modified and in some cases discarded
>     over the years.
>
> Gordon, what happened to University 13?
>
> My ESL English would not meet "someone else ...." challenge, but 
> thanks for your continuing professorial guidance.  Your four points 
> can be made into a good speech!
>
> Jaime
>
>

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