Earth & Space
US Higher Education and the Future of Society: A panel discussion
Sponsored by the UCSC Earth Futures institute, the panel discussion will be at 3:30 p.m. on October 27 in the Dougherty Reading Room in the Science & Engineering Library.
Are you a UC student wondering whether your book-learning and courses will still serve you 20 years from now? Are you a UC faculty member wondering whether society might be losing interest in your scholarship? Are you a UC administrator wondering what society wants from higher education — and what it is willing to pay for? Are you a community member concerned about the impact of the ecological crisis?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this event will interest you.
A small group of world-class visionaries has been invited by the UCSC Earth Futures Institute to meet in Santa Cruz on October 24-26. Their mission: to consider threats facing society in the 21st century, what society needs to know to manage those threats, and how universities need to restructure and reprioritize their work to generate that knowledge.
A panel discussion at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the Science & Engineering Library’s Dougherty Reading Room (main level) will be the first public presentation of their findings. Come to join the discussion and make your voice heard.