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A symposium called “Year 2020: The Research University in a Global Society” will bring together academic futurists and UGA scholars to discuss the evolution of the research university. Co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities and Arts and the Office of the Provost, the event will take place Jan. 14 in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. It will begin at 9 a.m.
The format for the day’s program is a series of three 30-minute addresses followed by discussions in which faculty panelists and the audience participate. Invited speakers are James Duderstadt, president emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan; Patricia Gumport, director of the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research at Stanford University; and Michael Janeway, director of the National Arts Journalism Program in the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
Duderstadt is currently director of the Millennium Project, a research center concerned with the future of higher education. He is a recipient of the E.O. Lawrence Award for excellence in nuclear research and the National Medal of Technology for exemplary service to the nation, and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. A leader on many national boards and advisory committees, he has recently published “The Future of the University in an Age of Knowledge” and “Can Colleges and Universities Survive in the Information Age?”
Gumport is author of Feminist Scholarship as a Vocation, “Public Universities as Academic Workplaces” in Daedalus and “The Sociology of Higher Education” in Annual Review of Sociology and co-editor of American Higher Education in the 21st Century. She is principal investigator on a U.S. Department of Education five-year grant to establish a National Center for Postsecondary Improvement.
Janeway is a former executive editor of The Atlantic Monthly, a former editor of The Boston Globe and a former dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is author of Republic of Denial: Press, Politics and Public Life and numerous articles about the function of the press in society. In 1977-78, he served as special assistant to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.
“Year 2020” was planned by Del Dunn, Regents Professor of Political Science, and Nelson Hilton, professor of English, in collaboration with the Center for Humanities and Arts.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
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