UNM Symposium on Scholarly Communication
October 17, 2011, Student Union Building, Lobo A&B
This year's Scholarly Communications Symposium
was a great success!
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Read the Symposium Announcement Below
KEYNOTE SPEAKER DR. JAMES J. DUDERSTADT |
Reinventing the Research University to Serve a Changing WorldThe seemingly incompatible imperatives of a changing world–massification (extending college degree attainment), league table rankings (achieving world-class research capacity and quality), exponentiating technologies (cyberinfrastructure, open learning resources, social networking), and shifting public priorities (viewing education as less a public good than a private benefit)–are all posing formidable challenges to higher education. While these are driving many institutional changes at the margin (increasing enrollments, expanding use of part-time faculty, rising tuition levels), recent studies at the international, national, regional, and institutional level suggest that not only is a more fundamental restructuring of higher education necessary, but new paradigms of learning, scholarship, and engagement may be required that will radically change the public purpose, mission, and character of the research university itself. |
Biographical Note |
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Dr. James J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. A graduate of Yale University and the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Duderstadt’s teaching, research, and service activities include nuclear science and engineering, applied physics, computer simulation, science policy, and higher education. He has served on or chaired numerous boards and study commissions including the National Science Board, the Executive Board of the National Academies and its Policy and Global Affairs Division, the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Commission on the Future of Higher Education, and the Advisory Committee on Cyberinsfrastructure of the National Science Foundation. He has received numerous awards and honorary degrees including the National Medal of Technology for exemplary service to the nation. At the University of Michigan he currently chairs the program in Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and directs the Millennium Project, a research center exploring the impact of over-the-horizon technologies on society. He is also currently serving on the recently announced National Academies Commission on the Future of the American Research University. |
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