Jaargang / Année 10, 2004, nr. 2 - Gewina

Lezingen en congressen / Conferences et congres 61
The Future of the American Public Research University
.ijmposium, Penn State University, February 25-26, 2005
Uit: AERA-F: History and Histotiograpf?y Forum, 29-10-2004
Public research universities play the leading role in
educating future leaders in agriculture, engineering, the
arts and sciences, hmnanities, business, education, and
other professions. They generate the new products,
processes, inventions, discoveries, insights, and
interpretations that advance the human condition. And,
through outreach, they harness their hmnan and
intellectual capital to serve the sponsoring societies. Yet
state investment in public higher education is faltering.
This flagging support, along with the growing perception
that higher education is a private benefit rather than a
public good, has put public research universities at a
crossroads.
Penn State will host an academic symposimn on "The Future of the American
Public Research Univeristy" as part of the University's Sesquicentennial celebration.
Sponored by the Penn State Almnni Association and the University's Center for the
Study of Higher Education, the symposimn will take place February 25-26, 2005 at
The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus.
The symposimn will address substantive issues about the future of public
research universities with respect to the social, political, and economic changes in the
post 9/11 world. Main topics such as teaching and learning, service and outreach,
students, roles and structure, financing, and academic research will be addressed in six
sessions over two days by a distinguished panel of speakers-leading scholars from
across the nation and from Penn State, uniquely qualified to address current and
future challenges facing public research tmiversities.
Friday, February 25, 2005
8:30-9:00 a.m. Welcome, Graham Spanier, President of The Pennsylvania State
University
9:00-10:30 a.m. Session I: Teaching and Learning in the Public Research
University (David Dill, Carol Colbeck, and Lisa Lattuca)
10:30-11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Session II: Service & Outreach: The Public Research
University's Opportunities and Obligations Qudith Ramaley and Jeremy Cohen)
12:30-2:30 p.m. Lunch with Speaker: "Are Citizen Governing Boards Up to the
Task in the Modern Public Research University?" (RichardT. Ingram)