[FRIAM] City University of Santa Fe

Sat Jan 6 14:46:48 EST 2018

Don't forget SAR and Renesan in the list of community "higher education"
resources.

TJ

On Jan 6, 2018 2:49 PM, "Steven A Smith" <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> Nick -
>
> My sympathies are with you in aching to see the potential of such a rich
> milieu as is implied by this city/region (more) fulfilled
> (elaborated?).   At the same time, my inner Taoist believes it is
> "precisely as it should be".
>
> Your appeal reminded me of my reading on the origin of "Coffee Houses"
> in England in the 17th century and their role as "Penny Universities".
> Of course, that is roughly how THIS forum began and continues as "the
> Mother Church", holding services weekly.
>
> It was this very vision which caused/allowed me to "stay the course"
> with the SF Complex from beginning to (beyond the) end, in spite of
> innumerable tangents and setbacks.
>
> I fear that the image of a "University" in any sense other than the
> above "Penny University" might be ultimately too nostalgic and oldSkool
> for our "modern times".  The likes of SFx or even MeowWolf may be closer
> to what is likely (or needed?) today.   The sum of
> SFAI/CCA/SFI/SITE/Lannan/??? sponsored talks and exhibitions is a rich
> tapestry which perhaps makes up for the lack of something more focused,
> with it's own (adobe) bricks and (mud) mortar?
>
> I don't offer this as a wet blanket, but maybe more an urging to
> (continue to) think broadly and maybe even a bit inside-out.
>
> The following is a reasonable (contemporary) description of the "Coffee
> House" phenomenon of the 17th/18th century which itself had a limited
> lifespan...
>
>     https://ineedcoffee.com/the-coffee-house-a-history/
>
> - Steve
>
> On 1/6/18 12:03 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> > Hi Glen and other interested parties,
> >
> > I went by the Secretary of State's office on Thursday and we found The
> City University of Santa Fe without difficulty and all I have to do is pay
> past filing fees to get myself back in good standing with the State of New
> Mexico.  When you search it, be sure to start with leading "The" .  I tried
> to find my old web page on the way back machine and I think I found some
> reference to it, but not the page itself.  The url was something like
> www.cusf.org. If anybody finds it, save it for me, would you.  I quite
> liked it.  I mean for citizen work.
> >
> > Some of you seem to raise the question where do we go from here.  I had
> thought, since I am getting so friggin old, that I would just shut it
> down.  The only things it has going for it are the name and the fact that
> Santa Fe is in many ways a university town without a university.  It has
> all these institutions doing quasi graduate work, and a gazillion retired
> PhD's doing various proects, and even a couple of advanced degree granting
> places.  But no desire to coalesce and cooperate, that I could detect.  I
> am not much of a culture vulture, but on a whim, went out to hear a TGIF
> concert of Schubert Leider in the Presbyterian church, this evening .
> There were something like 500 people there.  Not sure you could get a crowd
> like that on a cold winter's night to hear a local singer in Berkeley.
> Santa Fe is an extraordinary town.  It deserves a University.
> >
> > At today's meeting of the mother church I was banging on about the
> battering that the Liberal Arts ideal has received during my lifetime and
> my blief that we need to restore the country's faith in LEARNING.    I
> believe with all my heart that good things happen when you get smart
> diverse people together and make them think and argue about stuff.  I also
> thing there are a tremendous amount of young people in Santa Fe, working as
> baristas, and programmers, and piano tuners who by their devotion to the
> life of the mind deserve to pursue their interests.
> >
> > Speaking of battering, it's my understanding that the small liberal arts
> colleges are in for a terrible few years under the new tax bill and the
> Relatively Wealthy People of Santa Fe may need to be thinking about how to
> defend St. Johns, not to mention what every might be left of the poor old
> College of Santa Fe.
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > Nicholas S. Thompson
> > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> > Clark University
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of ? u???
> > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2018 8:53 AM
> > To: FriAM <friam at redfish.com>
> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] City University of Santa Fe
> >
> > I don't know how long they keep their records.  But there's no
> corporation with that name in the online database:
> >
> >   https://portal.sos.state.nm.us/BFS/online/CorporationBusinessSearch
> >
> > There are some non-profits with a Nick Thompson as an officer.  But that
> Nick seems to live in Albuquerque.
> >
> > On 01/05/2018 07:35 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> >
> >>     On Jan 4, 2018 11:05 PM, "Nick Thompson" <
> nickthompson at earthlink.net <mailto:nickthompson at earthlink.net>> wrote:
> >>         YEARS ago, when the College of Santa Fe was failing, I started
> >> a nonprofit called the City University of Santa Fe which was designed
> >> to pull all the educational resources of Santa Fe into one semi-formal
> >> organization, which, at the very minimum, would keep everybody
> >> informed about what everybody else was doing and maximally, might have
> >> provided temporary, volunteer,  faculty to the College of Santa Fe
> >> during its time of stress.   It turns out that you can set up a New
> >> Mexico non-profit for 25 dollars and ten bucks a year thereafter.
> >> Frank, and tom, and Mike Agar signed on as board members, I set up a
> >> website, and then, essentially, nothing happened.   SFAUD took over
> >> from CofSF and other organizations I contacted about the possible
> >> communication function dismissed the idea out of hand.  AND I lost my
> >> website and url,
> > --
> > ∄ uǝʃƃ
> >
> > ============================================================
> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe
> http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
> >
> >
> > ============================================================
> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
> >
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20180106/3d9f4b23/attachment.html>