Opinion: If the aim of higher education is to create future problem-solvers, then students should be challenged to interpret the events unfolding in Ukraine through their academic disciplines.
Students need to study the Russian invasion of Ukraine in real time, but it won’t happen unless higher ed replaces Churchill’s First World War “business as usual” approach with his Second World War “Never let a good crisis go to waste” approach.
It may have been an initial war strategy then, but this is now and a “business as usual” approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not an option for anyone, especially not for colleges and universities charged with educating tomorrow’s problem-solvers. One way to achieve this is to give students the option to replace one final exam with a take-home assignment that reads, “Apply what you have learned in this course to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” It’s a fitting assignment, considering how difficult it is for students to focus on anything but the invasion.
Sure, some will argue that students studying political science, history, economics, business, sociology, or philosophy will find it easier to write about the invasion of Ukraine than those studying mathematics, for example.
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