GW’s Future

REAL ESTATE

RELEVANCE

RANKINGS

Robert David STEELE

University Seminar

Thursday 15 March 2012

One Outsider’s Opinion

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GAME PLAN 2012-2015

SecState asks for Open Source Agency on South Central Campus

Saudis and JFK Center raise funds for two new buildings and Potomac Plaza ($600M estimate)+

GW as hub for design team including all stakeholders

Two new buildings on the Plaza, four new buildings on the South-Central Campus.

School of Future-

Oriented Hybrid

Governance

Horizons College & Consortium for Multidisciplinary ResearchPhD in Comprehensive Architecture

GW PROVOST: 4 Sets of Questions

• Globalization• Governance & Policy• Innovation with Interdisciplinary Collaboration• Citizenship & Leadership

Robert David Steele: 4 Sets of Answers

• Open Everything• Eight Tribes, Integrate Everything• Strategic Analytic Model Harmonizes Global / Local Sharing• BE the National University/OSA-MDSC

Globalization• Capitalizing on research all over the world

– Recognize the total fragmentation of knowledge– Do the homework – Elsevier citation analytics

• Preparing students for a global society– Heritage College: ethics, analytics, religious studies– Horizons College: 8 tribes, whole systems solutions

• Disseminating GW research all over the world– Create World Brain Institute, Global Game– Create prototype Center for Public Intelligence

• Restructuring GW as an institution?– Secretary of State to demand Open Source Agency– GW, JFK, Saudis raise funds for Potomac Plaza

Governance & Policy• Translating policy relevance into research

– Policy is out of touch with any model or true costs– BE the national university with the model & facts

• Building a policy-relevant educational experience– Teach the students how to create public intelligence– Teach the students how everything is connected

• Advancing new models of hybrid governance– BE the hub for eight tribes, World Brain, Global Game– Create the open source everything tools & network

• Strengthening GW’s position on policy deliberation– BE the lead university for the Open Source Agency– BE the lead university for the Multinational Decision-

Support Centre

Interdisciplinary Innovation• Sponsored interdisciplinary collaboration

– Do the homework – pay for Elsevier citation analytics– Adopt the model—work on ten high level threats

• Preparing students for an interdisciplinary world– Deeply impress on students the model, true costs– Use online options to connect all courses

• Promoting an interdisciplinary culture– Centralizing hiring at university level, end school silos– Centralize grant applications, harmonize applications

• Enabling interdisciplinary collaboration at GW– Clean-sheet evaluation of all existing buildings and how

used– Leverage the Potomac Plaza building as the prestige

location for University Professors who lead TEAMS

Citizenship & Leadership• Expanding research on citizenship & leadership

– The truth at any cost lowers all other costs– Integrate sciences, religions, & philosophies

• Fostering citizenship & leadership skills– Learn to question authority by discerning the truth– Future-proof the university – walk the walk

• How can GW be a better citizen of DC and USA?– Future-proof the District of Columbia– Be the National University and hub for Smart Nation

• What institutional changes are needed?– Learn how to do Open Space conferences and do many– Commit to Open Everything, adopt these ideas as a whole