VIII Glion Colloquium: Global Sustainability and the Role of Universities

这项研究提出，要产生的知识，使我们能够更好地了解可以发挥的作用，由世界？研究型大学在处理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）。特别令人感兴趣的是讨论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。这将不仅包括考虑研究型大学如何适应全球可持续发展的必要性（例如，社会多样性，资源管理，学术课程，研究和奖学金），而且他们如何开发新的课程，学生的经验，研究范式，社会参与和国际联盟，以更好地应对全球可持续发展的挑战，同时产生全球认同的公民。学术讨论会还将考虑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与会者参加第八届格里昂学术讨论会来做到这一点。本次会议旨在提高大学领导人对其机构在解决全球可持续性问题方面必须发挥的重要作用的认识和理解？特别是在发展中国家？并协助制定适当的战略。学术讨论会的论文、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.example.com）提供的数字资产）的广泛分发将www.glion.org我们的领先大学，以解决人类面临的最大挑战。该奖项的资金由NSF的国际科学与工程办公室，NSF的教育和人力资源局以及NSF的地球科学局提供。

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.