Michael M. Crow
President, Arizona State University

Panelists:
Jim Kloppenberg, Professor of History and Chair History Department
Dean Cherry Murray of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Dan Schrag, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment

Moderated by Sheila Jasanoff

"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."

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, Graduate School of Design, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment

This event is free and open to the public.