[Sci-tech-public] FW: Nov. 30: Designing a University for America's Complex Future - Science and Democracy Lecture Series

[Paree Pinkney]

From: Rabinowich, Shana [mailto:Shana_Rabinowich at hks.harvard.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:02 PM
To: 'sci-tech-public at mit.edu'
Subject: Nov. 30: Designing a Unviersity for America's Complex Future -
Science and Democracy Lecture Series

 

 

Science and Democracy, a lecture series aimed at exploring both the promised
benefits or our era's most salient scientific and technological
breakthroughs and the potentially harmful consequences of developments that
are inadequately understood, debated, or managed by politicians, lay
publics, and policy institutions.

Michael M. Crow
President, Arizona State University
 
"Designing a University for America's Complex Future" 

 

With Panelists: 
James Kloppenberg, Chair, History, Harvard University 
Cherry A. Murray, Dean, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Daniel P. Schrag, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment


Moderated by
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies,
Harvard Kennedy School

Tuesday, November 30
5:00 - 7:00p 

Piper Auditorium
Gund Hall, GSD
48 Quincy Street
Harvard University

Abstract: America is a nation of between 300 and 400 million people that is
still growing and that has needs that are vastly more complex than any of
the designs our historical higher education system has the capacity to
address. There are intricacy issues, global competitiveness issues,
performance issues, fiscal issues, as well as more fundamental issues
associated with the types of knowledge we are producing and how we are
transferring that knowledge to students in higher learning institutions.
With that in mind, and with a very narrow differentiation between U.S.
universities, the basic design and structure of a new class of higher
education institution will be outlined, and a specific case study of the
last eight years at Arizona State University will be detailed. ASU is
America's newest, largest and most nimble research university in terms of
the speed of its evolution and its impact. This design review and exemplar
analysis will be carried out in the context of designing universities for
America's complex future.


Michael M. Crow became the 16th president of Arizona State University on
July 1, 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the
nation's leading public metropolitan research universities, one that is
directly engaged in eh economic, social, and cultural vitality of its
region. Prior to joining ASU, he was executive vice provost of Columbia
University, where he also was professor of science and technology policy at
the School of International and Public Affairs. A fellow of the National
Academy of Public Administration, he is the author of books and articles
relating to the analysis of research organization, technology transfer,
science and technology policy, and the practice and theory of public policy.


This event is organized by the Program on Science, Technology, and Society,
at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-sponsored by the School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences, the Graduate School of Design, and the Harvard
University Center for the Environment.  For more information on Science,
Technology, and Society events at Harvard University, please visit:
www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/. This lecture and discussion is free and open to
the public.


Contact:
Lisa Matthews
Events Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment

24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
lisa_matthews at harvard.edu
p. 617-495-8883
f. 617-496-0425

 

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