Aaron's blog 2

This week I attended a couple sessions of world changers to try and get a feel for the direction they're moving in. Content wise, I didn't see a lot of difference in the lecture portion. For some reason though, it seemed to be more interesting to me than it was freshman year. I'm not sure if that's because I actually find it interesting now or if it's a difference in the way it's being taught. The wednesday portion of world changers is now being held in college church in the great room. It's a little more discussion based than it has been in the past. Following the class on wednesday, I sent Dr. Garner an email with my thoughts on how the class was. I suggested to him that he look into making the discussion part longer, possibly a two hour block, because you just can't get really deep into the issues in the short amount of time that there was. I have not heard anything back from him yet.

Last week, I mentioned that I had talked to Dr. Smith and he had forwarded an email on to the general education committee for me. I still haven't heard anything back from them either so I sent him another email today asking if he had. I'm waiting on that one too.

I have started researching what some other colleges require for religion or theology classes and found that several have something such as a basic christian beliefs or doctrine class or a christian thought class that they require. I may contact some of these other schools and ask more about those classes. I also intend to take a look at what IWU currently requires for all gen eds. and see if maybe there's something that really doesn't need to be in there that could be taken out to add another bible or theology course. That will probably be something to talk to the gen. ed. committee about.

My biggest joy this week was being able to sit in and talk to people about world changers, and to see how it's running. It really looks like they're moving in a good direction with the discussion groups. My biggest challenge has once again been finding things to do. I'm hoping that the gen. ed. committee will get back to me soon because one of things I asked them is to let me know what I can do to help in the process.

The leadership lesson for this week similar to last week's. When you don't have anything else to do, do what you think you might need to do in the future. It's hard for me to know what to do without having a response to my email from the gen. ed. committee. One of the things I thought I might need to do is look into what other schools require and what it might be possible for us to add. So that's what I started to do this week.

My question for this week is "do any of you have any recommendations or someone I should talk to or something I should look into?"