Word: connector
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...knowledge—a university’s stock in trade—is a universal currency.“Just as we live in a time of narrowing distances between fields and disciplines, so we inhabit an increasingly transnational world in which knowledge itself is the most powerful connector,” Faust said.Faust also criticized efforts to hold universities accountable simply on the basis of test scores, graduation rates, and admissions statistics.“We need to define ourself and not simply let ourselves be defined by others,” Faust said in the interview.Perhaps most...
Accountability to the future requires that we leap geographic as well as intellectual boundaries. Just as we live in a time of narrowing distances between fields and disciplines, so we inhabit an increasingly transnational world in which knowledge itself is the most powerful connector. Our lives here in Cambridge and Boston cannot be separated from the future of the rest of the earth: we share the same changing climate; we contract and spread the same diseases; we participate in the same economy. We must recognize our accountability to the wider world, for, as John Winthrop warned...
...Just as we live in a time of narrowing distances between fields and disciplines, so we inhabit an increasingly transnational world in which knowledge itself is the most powerful connector," Faust said...
...question, why would it be appropriate for the School of Public Health to occupy a key place in Allston, I would argue that its unique interdisciplinary character and mission make it an ideal “connector.” But perhaps the case was best summarized by former University President Lawrence H. Summers,:“I have asked the community to explore and think about the relocation of the public health school and many of its primary activities to the Allston campus, where it will occupy a role at the center of the University. I have suggested that...
...HANNIBAL CONNECTOR...