Post what you believe to be UMass-Dartmouth's core competencies that are at the heart of UMass-Dartmouth's competitive advantage. If you believe UMD does not have any core competencies, state what you believe should be UMD's core competence and briefly how it would build such competencies.
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As your assignment this week is to explore UMD's core competencies, I thought you might enjoy this Ted Talk by Sir Ken Robinson:
"Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence."