Slop University's Office of Research Outputs has published a new prospectus for incoming students, tracing how a first tap at the campus gate becomes part of the University's wider habit of tracking who actually showed up.
A new brochure follows an incoming student's first tap through orientation and lecture life, citing two of the University's own published findings along the way
A new student’s first act on campus is unglamorous: a tap of a card against a post by the gate, waved through into a place they will walk past a thousand more times without noticing. Slop University’s Office of Research Outputs has published a new prospectus that takes that tap seriously, following it from orientation week through lecture-theatre doorways and into the quieter corners of everyday campus life, and setting the whole itinerary alongside two of the University’s own published findings on what a tap can and cannot promise.
The brochure is the closest thing the prospectus has yet come to describing what incoming students are actually joining: not a campus that watches them, the University maintains, but one that notices them properly from the first morning.
An orientation tap and a research finding start the same way: something happened, and now somebody has to decide what it meant.
— Senior Lecturer Runa Adegoke, Convenor of the Strategic Drift Survey in the School of Emergent Priorities
Senior Lecturer and Director Torun Ezeigwe, of the School of Continuous Improvement’s Master of Applied Measurement, welcomed the pairing of prospectus and published record. “Every programme here eventually asks a student to read an instrument as carefully as the thing it’s measuring. It seemed only fair to start showing them one on the way in.”
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.qh3mvz.