Tipica calle de la UB
Con el vice de investigaciones y Ara (nótese que uno es rumano y el otro es armenio: ¿están los norte americanos cediendo espacio?)Es universidad de Investigación:
La investigación la toman como un mecanismo para: atraer los mejores profesores y los mejores estudiantes. Captaron 350 millones de dólares de fondos públicos para investigación en el último año.
50% de estudiantes de posgrado, más o menos. (40.000 en total). 1.400 profesores de planta y 2.000 catedráticos o ad-honorem.
Siempre hay tensión con los profesores, sobre cuanto y como intervenir desde el nivel central al académico.
Tienen plan estratégico[i]: priorizar, priorizar priorizar. Han sido muy realistas y escogen áreas claves pero no gastan dinero (excesivo) en cosas en las que no puedan ser muy buenos. Buscan alianzas para cosas en las que no son tan buenos.
Los más grandes retos para ser una universidad investigadora:
1. Hacer una honesta autoevaluación.
2. Enfocarse en la excelencia
La clave para lograr la interdisciplinariedad: entender claramente cual es el punto final, es decir la pregunta macro que puede unir las disciplinas: por ejemplo, sostenibilidad, calentamiento global, cura de enfermedades, etc. Sienten que la sociedad les pide ser más pertinentes y esta es la manera de lograrlo. Sin embargo, no reestructuran la Universidad sino que simplemente orientan sus departamentos e institutos (a propósito, tenemos estructura similar) temporalmente –así sea años- a trabajar por esas preguntas macro del punto final. Pero sugieren no disolver los departamentos (que cada uno responde a una disciplina), porque la ciencia finalmente debe siempre partir de lo básico y a ese punto se volverá, pues la evolución de la vida es lo único permanente. Hay muchos profesores que, a propósito, están en más de un departamento al tiempo o en departamento e instituto.
OJO: Nunca un profesor es solo investigador o solo da clases. Dividir la universidad entre investigadores y exclusivamente profesores que dan cátedra es una tara de los europeos!!! –según sus propias palabras.
Tienen algo muy llamativo: el center for the future.
[i] Our commitments and goals are intertwined:
1. To support and enhance a world-class faculty whose members are dedicated to teaching and engaged in research, scholarship, and their professions.
2. To continue to develop the special undergraduate educational environment that combines our commitment to a liberal arts and sciences education with professional opportunities, while creating flexible educational opportunities to leverage the depth of CAS and our other schools and colleges. To continue our commitment to inclusiveness based on merit for all students, irrespective of race, religion, or economic status, and to raise the financial aid needed to do this.
3. To expand and enhance the College of Arts and Sciences as the core of the University and our undergraduate programs. We are committed to increasing the number of CAS faculty members and expanding and renewing the College’s facilities.
4. To enhance the residential campus and student life experience for our undergraduate students in the special urban environment of Boston.
5. To strengthen scholarship and research throughout the University by support of key disciplinary graduate programs.
6. To enhance our nationally recognized professional schools and colleges, including Medicine, Management, Law, and Fine Arts. Our commitments to Medicine, Law, and Management are key to our prominence as a major urban research university. The College of Fine Arts offers a special opportunity for projecting Boston University on campus, in the city, and around the world.
7. To increase our emphasis on interdisciplinary research and graduate education in order to expand our leadership in important fields and the collaborative atmosphere across our campuses.
8. To continue to foster the engagement of Boston University in the city and the world, through public service and by extending the reach of our educational programs, including both study-abroad opportunities for Boston-based students and the creation of new opportunities for students from around the world to experience a BU education.
Our commitments and goals are intertwined:
1. To support and enhance a world-class faculty whose members are dedicated to teaching and engaged in research, scholarship, and their professions.
2. To continue to develop the special undergraduate educational environment that combines our commitment to a liberal arts and sciences education with professional opportunities, while creating flexible educational opportunities to leverage the depth of CAS and our other schools and colleges. To continue our commitment to inclusiveness based on merit for all students, irrespective of race, religion, or economic status, and to raise the financial aid needed to do this.
3. To expand and enhance the College of Arts and Sciences as the core of the University and our undergraduate programs. We are committed to increasing the number of CAS faculty members and expanding and renewing the College’s facilities.
4. To enhance the residential campus and student life experience for our undergraduate students in the special urban environment of Boston.
5. To strengthen scholarship and research throughout the University by support of key disciplinary graduate programs.
6. To enhance our nationally recognized professional schools and colleges, including Medicine, Management, Law, and Fine Arts. Our commitments to Medicine, Law, and Management are key to our prominence as a major urban research university. The College of Fine Arts offers a special opportunity for projecting Boston University on campus, in the city, and around the world.
7. To increase our emphasis on interdisciplinary research and graduate education in order to expand our leadership in important fields and the collaborative atmosphere across our campuses.
8. To continue to foster the engagement of Boston University in the city and the world, through public service and by extending the reach of our educational programs, including both study-abroad opportunities for Boston-based students and the creation of new opportunities for students from around the world to experience a BU education.
1. To support and enhance a world-class faculty whose members are dedicated to teaching and engaged in research, scholarship, and their professions.
2. To continue to develop the special undergraduate educational environment that combines our commitment to a liberal arts and sciences education with professional opportunities, while creating flexible educational opportunities to leverage the depth of CAS and our other schools and colleges. To continue our commitment to inclusiveness based on merit for all students, irrespective of race, religion, or economic status, and to raise the financial aid needed to do this.
3. To expand and enhance the College of Arts and Sciences as the core of the University and our undergraduate programs. We are committed to increasing the number of CAS faculty members and expanding and renewing the College’s facilities.
4. To enhance the residential campus and student life experience for our undergraduate students in the special urban environment of Boston.
5. To strengthen scholarship and research throughout the University by support of key disciplinary graduate programs.
6. To enhance our nationally recognized professional schools and colleges, including Medicine, Management, Law, and Fine Arts. Our commitments to Medicine, Law, and Management are key to our prominence as a major urban research university. The College of Fine Arts offers a special opportunity for projecting Boston University on campus, in the city, and around the world.
7. To increase our emphasis on interdisciplinary research and graduate education in order to expand our leadership in important fields and the collaborative atmosphere across our campuses.
8. To continue to foster the engagement of Boston University in the city and the world, through public service and by extending the reach of our educational programs, including both study-abroad opportunities for Boston-based students and the creation of new opportunities for students from around the world to experience a BU education.
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