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Redesigning Arizona State University: A focus on sustainability

Redesigning Arizona State University: A focus on sustainability. Engineering Sustainability 2007 Innovations that Span Boundaries April 16, 2007. Jonathan Fink Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs Arizona State University. Everyone can help find sustainability solutions.

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Redesigning Arizona State University: A focus on sustainability

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  1. Redesigning Arizona State University:A focus on sustainability Engineering Sustainability 2007 Innovations that Span Boundaries April 16, 2007 Jonathan Fink Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs Arizona State University

  2. Everyone can help find sustainability solutions Volcanologists are asked: • Are eruption frequencies increasing? Adaptation • Did Pinatubo cause global cooling? Variable climate • How to convey what has not yet been experienced? Overcoming public apathy

  3. Complex problems require multidisciplinary solutions Each region and discipline has its own examples Start locally to address global problems Sustainability solutions need input from all departments How can administrators facilitate such participation? Every institution can also contribute

  4. Decision Center for a Desert City John Browne BP visit Temozon retreat J. Wrigley gift; GIOS Decision Theater 2005 2004 2004 2005 2005 M. Crow to ASU ASU-wide dialogue 2002 EPA SMART Center CAP-LTER IGERT(s) 2006 1996 1999 (2005) 2006 CES CAS-ASU JCUS 1970s-80s 2006 School of Sustainability Chief Sustainability Office 2007 2007 ASU, like every university, has had a unique path

  5. Where should sustainability be housed? How to create an identity for a school of “shared” faculty? How to re-distribute resources (lines, raises, T.A.s)? How to balance fundamental and applied research? What is healthy inter- and intra-institutional competition? Prioritizing sustainability tests institutional flexibility

  6. Why are we encouraged that experiment will work? • Context: 14 schools launched at ASU in past 4 years • Interdisciplinarity emphasized in internal reward system • Builds on experience of five NSF IGERTs • Based on input from world’s leading sustainability experts • Regional planning relying increasingly on ASU input • Industrial partners looking for these kinds of graduates • Students very enthusiastic about existing courses

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