The Big Picture


In November, all faculty and staff at Iowa State will spend 
three to four hours looking at the big picture in higher 
education. Employees will discuss trends in higher ed, what 
those trends mean for Iowa State, and how the university can 
better serve its students.

Putting 6,000 employees together for hundreds of small group 
discussions is no small undertaking. It promises to be the 
most ambitious employee learning program ever at Iowa State. 
Steve Richardson, director of the Center for Teaching 
Excellence and chair of the steering committee for the 
project, says he believes the discussions started in November 
will yield good things for Iowa State and its students.

"Our goal is to help our students succeed -- while they're 
here at Iowa State and after they leave," Richardson said. 
"Everybody at this university -- from groundskeepers to 
faculty to secretaries -- is an important part of that goal 
and can help us find ways to accomplish it." 

Root Learning Inc., a Perrysburg, Ohio, firm that produces 
interactive learning products for businesses, is assisting 
Iowa State in the project. Root has done similar work for 
such corpora-tions as Pepsi, Maytag, Harley-Davidson and 
Libbey Glass. Iowa State will be the first university to use 
the firm's learning techniques.

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contact:  University Relations, (515) 294-3129
updated:  9-28-95