A conversation between:
Dorothy Zinberg, Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, Harvard University
Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University
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Michael Crow
Michael M. Crow became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University in 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation's leading public metropolitan research universities, an institution combining academic excellence, inclusiveness, and societal impact - a model he terms the "New American University."
During his tenure ASU has established major transdisciplinary research initiatives and witnessed an unprecedented academic infrastructure expansion, tripling of research expenditures, and attainment of record levels of diversity. He was previously executive vice provost of Columbia University. A fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, he is the author of books and articles analyzing knowledge enterprises and science and technology policy.
Dorothy Shore Zinberg
Dorothy Shore Zinberg is a lecturer in Public Policy and a founding member and faculty associate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Zinberg's research focuses on several aspects of international science and technology.
She has served on the National Academy of Sciences and in advisory positions on various boards at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is also a member of the International Council for Science Policy Studies, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Zinberg is the editor and a contributing author of Uncertain Power: The Struggle for a National Energy Policy and The Changing University: How Increased Demand for Scientists and Technology is Transforming Academic Institutions Internationally.
Learning that takes place in schools or school-like environments (formal education) or in the world at large; the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In developing cultures there is often little formal education; children learn from their environment and activities, and the adults around them act as teachers. In more complex societies, where there is more knowledge to be passed on, a more selective and efficient means of transmission—the school and teacher—becomes necessary. The content of formal education, its duration, and who receives it have varied widely from culture to culture and age to age, as has the philosophy of education. Some philosophers (e.g., John Locke) have seen individuals as blank slates onto which knowledge can be written. Others (e.g., Jean-Jacques Rousseau) have seen the innate human state as desirable in itself and therefore to be tampered with as little as possible, a view often taken in alternative education. See alsobehaviourism; John Dewey; elementary education; higher education; kindergarten; lyceum movement; progressive education; public school; special education; teaching.
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