VIII Glion Colloquium: Global Sustainability and the Role of Universities

第八届格里昂学术研讨会：全球可持续发展与大学的作用

• 批准号: 1104121
• 负责人: James Duderstadt
• 金额: $ 9.89万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1104121&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VIII; Glion; Colloquium; Global; Sustainability

The research proposes to generate knowledge that will allow us to better understand the roles that can be played by the world?s research universities in addressing the various elements of global sustainability (e.g., global climate change and environmental impact, global health and disease, the increasing fragility of economic markets, and rapidly changing demographics). Of particular interest will be discussions of how the imperatives of global sustainability are driving change in higher education around the world. This will include considerations not only of how research universities are adapting to the imperatives of global sustainability (e.g., social diversity, resource management, academic programs, research and scholarship), but also how they can develop new curricula, student experiences, research paradigms, social engagement and international alliances to better address the challenges of global sustainability, while producing globally identified citizens. The Colloquium will also consider a discussion of longer-term possibilities that might pose even greater threats to global sustainability and how universities could prepare graduates for such eventualities. The proposal intends to do this by bringing US participants to the VIII Glion Colloquium. This meeting intends to raise the awareness and understanding of university leaders of the essential role their institutions must play in addressing global sustainability?particularly in the developing world?and to provide assistance in developing appropriate strategies. The unusually broad distribution of publications (papers, books, and digital assets provided through the Glion website (http://www.glion.org) resulting from the papers, discussion, and conclusions of the Colloquium will convey to a global audience both the urgency and guidance in deploying the considerable intellectual assets of the world?s leading universities to address the greatest challenge facing humankind. Funding for this award is provided by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering, NSF's Directorate for Education and Human Resources, and NSF's Directorate for Geosciences.

这项研究提出要产生知识，使我们能够更好地理解世界可以扮演的角色。美国研究型大学应对全球可持续性的各种要素（例如，全球气候变化和环境影响、全球健康和疾病、经济市场日益脆弱以及人口结构迅速变化）。会议将特别关注全球可持续发展的必要性如何推动世界各地高等教育的变革。这不仅要考虑研究型大学如何适应全球可持续性的要求（例如，社会多样性、资源管理、学术项目、研究和奖学金），还要考虑它们如何开发新的课程、学生体验、研究范式、社会参与和国际联盟，以更好地应对全球可持续性的挑战，同时培养全球认同的公民。讨论会还将讨论可能对全球可持续性构成更大威胁的长期可能性，以及大学如何使毕业生为这种可能性做好准备。该提案打算通过邀请美国参与者参加第八届格里昂研讨会来做到这一点。本次会议旨在提高大学领导对其机构在解决全球可持续性问题中必须发挥的重要作用的认识和理解。尤其是在发展中国家？并在制定适当的战略方面提供协助。研讨会的论文、讨论和结论所产生的出版物（论文、书籍和通过格里昂网站（http://www.glion.org）提供的数字资产）的异常广泛的分发，将向全球听众传达部署世界上可观的知识资产的紧迫性和指导方针。美国顶尖大学解决人类面临的最大挑战。该奖项的资金由美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室、美国国家科学基金会教育与人力资源理事会以及美国国家科学基金会地球科学理事会提供。