Fumbling Toward Foresight

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-409
Author(s):  
Peter J. Wasilko
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
End User ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
The Future ◽  
City States ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Future Work

This personal reflection describes the evolution of the author’s relationship with The Future on his interdisciplinary research journey from the 1990’s to the present. It begins with an overview of his University work and discovery of Augmentation Research from which he derives a definition of Enabling Technologies that he tried to combine in an informal digital library venture called The Continuity Project. When further progress was blocked by technological impediments, he shifted gears to establish a formal long-term R&D focused 501(c)(3) Public Charity called The Institute for End User Computing, Inc. that ultimately failed due to regulatory compliance costs associated with premature incorporation as the Future diverged from the organization’s assumptions. Through this period, the author came to recognize a growing crisis in the academy that inspired him to launch his current initiative—an unincorporated association dedicated to exploring University Futures called Founders’ Quadrangle. In researching this new project, he discovered the Foresight literature which transformed his thinking about The Future and empowered him to formulate The Academic Sublime—a vision of his preferred future for the University with a set of core tenants against which possible futures and responses to them might be evaluated. He then engaged in Backcasting through a series of developmental stages leading to a distant future of academic city-states. Of particular note was his recognition that traditional colleges and universities are precluded from exploring many possible futures by the current regulatory schema under which they operate leading him to propose a new legal analytic framework of entities like Founders’ Quadrangle—to be called Quasi Academic Enterprises (QAE’s)—which are driven by the avoidance of regulatory impedance mismatch in their pursuit of The Academic Sublime. The paper closes with an overview of contemplated future work

Knowledge, meaning, and the world's great challenges

2004 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Value Ethics ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Questioning

The future of Cambridge University is discussed in the context of the current British and global situation of universities, the main focus being on what the core concerns of a major university should be at this time. After raising issues related to core intellectual values (truth-seeking, rationality in argument, balanced judgement, integrity, linguistic precision and critical questioning) and the sustaining of a long-term social and intellectual ecology, four main challenges are identified: uniting teaching and research fruitfully; interrelating fields of knowledge appropriately across a wide range of disciplines; contributing to society in ways that are responsible towards the long-term flourishing of our world; and sustaining and reinventing collegiality so that the university can be a place where intensive, disciplined conversations within and across generations can flourish. The latter leads into questions of polity, governance and management. Finally, the inseparability of teaching, research and knowledge from questions of meaning, value, ethics, collegiality and transgenerational responsibility leads to proposing ‘wisdom’ as an integrating concept. The relevant sources of wisdom available are both religious and secular, and in a world that is complexly both religious and secular we need universities that can be places where both are done justice. Given the seriousness and long-term nature of the conflicts associated with religious and secular forces in our world, it is especially desirable that universities in their education of future generations contribute to the healing of such divisions.

scholarly journals THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION FOR THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONS

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Adele Fasick
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Access Information ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Future Of Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Alternative Delivery

Although technology and the Internet have enabled the information professions to make huge strides, there are still many issues to be resolved. This article outlines and discusses many of them including environmental changes; linking - access, knowledge of location is not enough to access information; the proposed Information Commons by the University of Toronto; changes in definition of professions; the need for alternative delivery of education and for service orientation. Finally, the need for flexible basic education for Information Studies students is emphasized in order to guarantee the future of the profession. 

scholarly journals Sustainable Tax Policy Through the Lens of Intergenerational Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
New Members ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
Policy Question

Professor Lind’s summary of the papers in this issue ably captures the range of topics addressed by the scholars who gathered for our conference at the University of Gävle last year. More importantly, she points out how well the various articles translate into the era of COVID-19. Even though no one could possibly have imagined the changes that we have experienced just since February of 2020, the issues of inequality, environmental degradation, international tax coordination, gender-and race-based unfairness, and so on have become even more important as the world explores how to move forward from this global tragedy. One of my long-term research projects has involved exploring the obligations between generations, in particular the “downward” obligations from older generations to younger generations that determine whether new members of society will thrive in the future.1 It is a source of inspiration but also some frustration that nearly every policy issue can be viewed from an intergenerational perspective—inspiration because it reminds us that all policy decisions have effects (direct and indirect) that carry into the future, but frustration because merely “having an impact in the future” does not necessarily make a policy question ripe for an intergenerational analysis and is thus too broad.

scholarly journals Prospective solvency in ensuring the financial stability of the enterprise

2021 ◽  
pp. 162-168
Author(s):  
Vita Vynogradnya ◽  
Lyudmila Burdonos
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Stable Operation ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Definition Of

 Issues of ensuring the financial stability of enterprises are extremely important for the socio-economic development of Ukraine. Stable operation of the enterprise is possible only if the appropriate level of solvency of the enterprise. That is why the issues and problems related to ensuring solvency are given much attention in the scientific works of scientists from both foreign and domestic scientific schools. At the same time, insufficient attention is paid to long-term solvency as an important component of the system of ensuring the stable functioning and development of the enterprise in the future. The task of the study is to analyze the approaches of scientists to the interpretation of the essence of prospective solvency and its role in ensuring the stable operation of the enterprise, determining the characteristic causes of its decline in modern socio-economic development of Ukraine; development of a proposal to ensure the solvency of the enterprise in the future. In the process of research general and special methods were used: analysis and synthesis, method of comparison, generalization, statistical, etc. The article considers the essence of perspective solvency of the enterprise and its role in ensuring stable functioning of the enterprise. The factors that determine it are systematized. The conceptual model of providing perspective solvency of the enterprise for the purpose of stable functioning and development of the enterprise which provides: definition of system of the corresponding indicators of perspective solvency for their constant monitoring is offered; finding out the possible reasons, which may result in loss of prospective solvency; the sequence of implementation of the necessary measures for its restoration and provision in the future. The results of this study can be used in the process of enterprise management to determine the real state of its solvency and develop measures to ensure it in the medium and long term.

scholarly journals Myles Brand’s College Sports Sustainability: “Amateurism”, Finances, and Institutional Balance

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Fort
Keyword(s):  
Academic Integrity ◽  
College Sports ◽  
Athletic Department ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Mission ◽  
Central Elements ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

As NCAA President, Myles Brand championed three major college sports initiatives: academic integrity, diversity, and sustainability. This paper is about the last. The first step is to distill the elements of college sports that Brand identified repeatedly in his documents and speeches on sustainability. The central elements are the NCAA definition of “amateurism”, athletic department finances, and balance between athletic and academic spending as a part of the university mission. An assessment of these three suggests that NCAA amateurism has changed since his death, in ways Brand stated should raise worries about sustainability. Finances and balance within the university have changed very little over the past ten years and appear sustainable into the future.

scholarly journals PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR FORMING THE FUTURE CHOREOGRAPHER’S READINESS FOR REHEARSAL ACTIVITIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-133
Author(s):  
L.Ya. Nikolaeva ◽  
T.V. Sabantseva
Keyword(s):  
Research Topic ◽  
Dance Pedagogy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Step Algorithm ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

The problem and purpose of the research lies in the specifics of substantiating the readiness of students-choreographers for rehearsal activities. The assessment of the elaboration of the proposed research topic in the scientific and methodological literature on the art of choreography and dance pedagogy is carried out. The aim is to identify and substantiate the pedagogical conditions for increasing the efficiency of developing the skills of rehearsal activity among studentschoreographers in the process of mastering choreographic disciplines at the university. The definition of “rehearsal activity or rehearsal component of choreographic activity” has been clarified. There are four main directions for the development of pedagogical conditions. A step-by-step algorithm for rehearsal activities has been developed, which formed the basis of the pedagogical conditions for the professional readiness of a student-choreographer.

scholarly journals Examining career orientations at the University of Debrecen

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Éva Gergely
Keyword(s):  
Future Orientation ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Career Anchors ◽  
Practical Utilization ◽  
Functional Capabilities ◽  
Work Value ◽  
Jel Code ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

The paper endeavours to give a narrower definition of the orientation of ‘career’. The survey to be discussed examines a sample of 116 full time students of economics and has career anchor analysis as its focus. The study details the result of a questionnaire-based survey, which was carried out with respect to the carrier of university students and was supplemented by surveying motivation, value and work value as well. The analysis finds that “security, stability and organisational identification” are judged to be the primary career anchors among the members of the majority sample. This means that the respondents feel ready to identify themselves with the company and are looking for security to be provided by long term employment, regular earnings and by steady career advancement. The cluster analysis of the questionnaire differentiates four groups: Leaders, Specialists, Entrepreneurs and Employees. The results showed that the Leaders have high capacities of leadership, creativity and autonomy. The Specialists show highly developed functional capabilities in general and they seem to like challenges. The Entrepreneurs have outstandingly high scores concerning autonomy and entrepreneurial creativity. The members of the cluster of the Employees are characterised by a high expectation of security and stability and by low levels of managerial capability and entrepreneurial creativity. Discriminant analysis was applied to select the distinguishing features that can set the clusters apart from each other. The motivations, values preferences and work values inventory will consolidate the differences between the clusters of the career anchors. Using the method in high education within special trainings could be the practical utilization of the study. On the basis of the results a questionnaire can be compiled, which could help uncertain students relating to their carriers and future orientation containing information in connection with their carrier orientation, motivation, value preferences and work value. JEL code: I21

Our Obsolete Marketing Mentality: George Fisk, Meet Karl Polanyi

2020 ◽  
pp. 027614672097372
Author(s):  
Raymond Benton
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Economics ◽  
The State ◽  
Karl Polanyi ◽  
The Past ◽  
Alternative Economies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Framework

Marketing in general can have greater influence if a new, yet old, perspective on marketing is adopted—something akin to the original orientation of marketing. Adopting George Fisk’s definition of marketing and marrying it with notions derived from the institutional economist Karl Polanyi is proposed. The histories of marketing thought and of institutional economics are reviewed to demonstrate their affinity and similar origins. Fisk’s conceptualization of marketing as societies’ provisioning systems is shown to correspond with Polanyi’s conceptualization of economies as instituted processes, admitting more than the market and the state as ways economies have historically and cross-culturally integrated with society. The obsolete marketing mentality is that marketers, including macromarketers, are overly fixated on the market and ignore or overlook alternatives. The Fisk/Polanyi orientation will attract macromarketers interested in marketing and development, critical marketing, sustainability, alternative economies, and those interested in the long-term prospects of macromarketing. Adopting this old, but new, framework will connect the past with the future, permit macromarketers make a mark on a larger intellectual landscape and serve to invite scholars in this larger landscape to engage with macromarketing.

scholarly journals Benefits Resulting from Maintaining a Relationship between Economic Universities and Their Alumni: the Case of the Warsaw School of Economics

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andżelika Kuźnar ◽  
Joanna Żukowska
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
Additional Source ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Universities ◽  
Source Of Information

Alumni are more and more often perceived as the most important asset of a university, crucial for the implementation of its strategic goals. Polish economic universities, in comparison to American and many European ones, have much to catch up on in this area. The problem is not only that funds are too small in relation to the needs. There is a lack of systematised knowledge about the possible benefits of maintaining a relationship between universities and alumni, as well as the lack of developed models for this cooperation. The aim of the article is to assess the benefits of cooperation between universities of economics and their alumni taking into account the benefits for the university, its alumni and present students, and to identify good practice in this area. The research method was based on the analysis of the results of a survey conducted online from 28 universities in 19 countries. An additional source of information was the literature, websites, a diagnosis of the situation at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) and the experience of the authors who have visited some of the foreign universities. As a result of the analysis, it was found that universities are aware of the benefits of maintaining relationships with alumni. The quality of this cooperation is not satisfactory and action is necessary to organise it better. In the case of the SGH, which has been subject to a detailed analysis, there is no clear definition of the goals for maintaining relationships with alumni. The priority should be to develop a long-term strategy leading to organising these relations and outline a desired model of cooperation.

scholarly journals Raccomandazioni per lo sviluppo dell'Editoria Elettronica negli Atenei Italiani

2006 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Academic World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
The University

In May 2004, the delegates of the Library Commission of the CRuI had already identified the issue of electronic publishing as one of the strategic aspects to be addressed and explored with the utmost attention. The setting up of the working group on Electronic Publishing, co-ordinated by the University of Florence, formalised this interest, stimulating the analysis of the state of the art in this field in Italy, the opportunities which it offered to the academic world and the definition of possible lines of development. The "Recommendations" comprised in this publication are addressed to the delegates of the Chancellors of the Italian universities and their collaborators, and intended to provide information and suggestions for the development of electronic publishing initiatives. They are consequently designed not only as a tool for help and guidance for those who are already moving in the direction of a University publishing initiative, but also as an invitation to reflect on the importance that electronic publishing is acquiring for the teaching and scientific activities of the future.

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