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Follow on Google News | Globalizing Research: How Strategic are U.S. & German Universities’ Internationalization Strategies?How successful have U.S. and German universities been in adapting to the globalization of research? On October 15, leaders in higher education will convene at the GCRI in New York to discuss the efficacy of university internationalization strategies.
By: German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI) Dr. C.D. (Dan) Mote, Jr., President of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), will begin the discussion by presenting on how a university’s research environment is embedded in its national innovation environment. He will explain how university initiatives, sponsorships, priorities, and opportunities, as well as opportunities for students, derive in substantial measure from the national innovation environment at large. The U.S. innovation environment, for example, has changed substantially between the 20th and 21st centuries, principally driven by the reduced capability to control information and innovation that accompanied globalization. Dr. Mote Jr. will underline how accelerating innovation in the 21st century calls for engagement in strategic partnerships with increasing numbers of contributors and countries. He will also speak about the effects of the United States’ transition to a 21st century innovation environment, including its impact on university research environments and strategic global collaborations. Dr. Mote Jr. will draw upon years of expertise from a variety of distinguished leadership positions and advisory roles: he chaired the National Research Council Committee on Global Science and Technology Strategies and Their Effects on U.S. National Security from 2009 to 2010, co-chaired the National Academies Government-University- He will be joined by Prof. Dr. Ernst Rank, Chair of Computation in Engineeringat the Technische Universität München (TUM). Prof. Dr. Rank was the First Vice President of TUM from 2002 to 2008 and has served as the Founding Director of the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering since 2006, Chairman of the University Council of TU Dortmund since 2007, and was Director of the TUM Graduate School from 2008 to 2013. He will discuss the drastic changes in the German university system that began in the 1990’s following the notion that future success depended on a university’s ability to maintain its competitiveness in a globalizing economy. At the time, the necessary modernization process based on the constitutionally guaranteed “freedom of teaching and research” had not yet been implemented. Any mere top-down reforms without intense faculty participation in discussions and decision processes would have been bound to fail. Governance models under the motto: “Enable, encourage, convince, reward – and let them work,” according to Prof. Dr. Rank, however, have been successful in many cases. He will then continue by providing several examples from different levels of science and university policy. The German “Excellence Initiative,” Dr. Cathleen Fisher, President of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AFAvH), will moderate this discussion. Prior to joining AFAvH in 2008, she served as Vice President for Institutional Relations at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Dr. Fisher has taught at the George Washington University, Georgetown University, and Emory University and has written numerous articles on transatlantic relations. Her latest publication is “The Invisible Pillar of Transatlantic Cooperation: The panel discussion will take place on Wednesday, October 15, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the German Center for Research and Innovation (871 United Nations Plaza, First Avenue, btw. 48th & 49th Streets). To RSVP by October 13, click here (https://www.eventbrite.com/ Unable to attend? Follow @gcri_ny (https://twitter.com/ This event is co-sponsored by the German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI) and the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AFAvH). The German Center for Research and Innovation (http://www.germaninnovation.org/) End
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