CS Higher education and the Ne Professor

Prompt

A computer science department at Utah Valley University hired a new adjunct instructor to design and teach its global intercultural ethics in CS courses and after one year if his teaching and feedback is exceptional, he will have the option to take on more responsibility by designing and teaching its software engineering capstone courses. This new instructor has an interdisciplinary background in Communications Science (HCI) for his undergrad, an MBA in project management (engineering) and is a PhD (ABD) in Cognitive Science & Computer Science (dual PhD). His research for his PhD will be integrated into his courses and curriculum where he will use narrative samples collected from students to have his AI/ML/NLP models analyze their language patterns to identify how they process information based on their dominant and auxiliary cognitive functions. Once he has a full picture of his students learning style and class dynamics, he will adapt his course to their unique needs. He will primarily begin the course introducing frameworks that do not initially seem to be related or connected to computer science such as Information Processing & Jungian Cognitive Functions, Dr. K Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration, and Complex Adaptive Systems. The lectures will be given in an active learning and highly energizing and humorous and interesting manner that will engage the learning through novelty and passion. The class will be given a midterm exam to test on their knowledge of the frameworks. He will then engage the class in group discussions, debates, and other activities requiring students to participate and speak up and share their ideas and perspectives and listen to others and think critically about ones own position while using the frameworks as the engine behind all the debates. Finally, they will play a game like Detroit: Become Human and all vote as a class for each decision to make - while recording their responses. The final exam will be given and provide a personalized question set that challenges their decisions in comparison to the classes decisions and they must justify their anwers based on the theories learned in class and demonstrate they can think independently and apply to real world situations. His courses have no busy work, are highly unconventional, and seem to be disorganized and chaotic on the surface due to the low structure and "unrelated tangents and curriculum" while also changing things up at the last minute or heading in a new direction at any time given new information that provides enough insight into what the class needs. His personality is an ENTP - and he's definitely a strong Ne+Ti user but uses his Fe in ways that are charming and magnetic and generally endearing and stimulating in group settings while also being kind and considerate to his students but also possessing vulnerabilities in institutional and organizational settings. The year is 2022, Fall semester. AI is starting to enter the CS conversation, but not entirely. Given this information - how do you project this instructor's experience to go at UVU? How will he be received, how will his curriculum and methods go over with the students and department? How do you see everything playing out? Is this what CS needs, and whatever out come you foresee, what does this say about the current state of CS and higher education? Does it reflect a broader cultural and industry problem or attudue or bias? Explain your reasoning.