A Multidisciplinary Approach to University Leader Development July 30 – August 3, 2012 INTRODUCTION.

A Multidisciplinary Approach to University Leader Development

July 30 – August 3, 2012INTRODUCTION

• Opening– Greeting and Agenda– Participant Introductions

• Background on Harvard University and SAI

• Overview of the Program and Introduction to workshop sessions

Opening Session Agenda

• Harvard was established in 1636 by the “Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay colony.” It was modeled after Cambridge University, England and named after its first benefactor: John Harvard, a minister.– “To advance Learning and perpetuate it to

Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches.”

• Harvard University grew from one school and 9 students to an enrollment of more than 6,700 undergraduates and over 14,500 professional and graduate students in one college and 10 graduate schools.

• Some statistics:• About 2,100 (non-medical) faculty• An additional 11,000 medical school faculty• Total real estate is 5,076 acres• Over 323,000 living alumni

A Brief Overview of Harvard University

• Seven US Presidents attended Harvard College:• John Adams• John Quincy Adams• Theodore Roosevelt• Franklin Delano Roosevelt• Rutherford B. Hayes• John Fitzgerald Kennedy• George W. Bush

• Over 40 Nobel Laureates

A Brief Overview of Harvard University

Harvard University Map

The South Asia Initiative at Harvard University

Students

Faculty

Community

Engaging faculty and students through interdisciplinary programs to advance and deepen the teaching and

research on global issues relevant to South Asia.


SAI Steering Committee

John BriscoeSchool of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School of Public Health

Asim KhawjaKennedy School of Government Parimal Patil

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Nicholas BurnsKennedy School of Government

David BloomSchool of Public Health

Business School

Rahul MehrotraGraduate School of Design

Diana SorensenFaculty of Arts and Sciences

Jennifer LeaningSchool of Public Health

Medical SchoolRohini PandeKennedy School of Government

Diana EckFaculty of Arts and Sciences

Tarun KhannaBusiness School

Venkatesh NarayanamurtiSchool of Engineering and

Applied SciencesKennedy School of Government

William KirbyFaculty of Arts and Sciences

Business School

David BarronLaw School

Tony SaichKennedy School of Government

Fernando ReimersGraduate School

of Education


Events at Harvard

Global Health Pakistan Social Enterprise South Asia Without Borders Urbanization Water & Climate Change Book Talks & Film Events

Spearheaded by faculty from across the University, SAI’s Seminar Series and Conferences seek to broaden and deepen scholarship in areas of:

(from left): Tarun Khanna, HBS/SAI, Arthur Kleinman, HMS/FAS/Harvard Asia Center, Paul Farmer, HMS/Partners in Health, and Devi Shetty, Founder Of Narayana

Hrudayalaya Hospitalat the 2012 SAI annual symposium: Health in South Asia: Lessons for and from the

World

Dr. A. P. J. Kalam, 11th President of India, delivered SAI’s annual Mahindra Lecture on September 27, 2011. Dr. Kalam also participated in an event at

the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a student event at the Harvard Law School

During his time at Harvard, Dr. Kalam visited six laboratories and was given overviews on topics ranging from nanometer technology to molecular physics


Events at Harvard

• 34 Partner Organizations offering Internships to Harvard Undergrad and Graduate Students for Summer 2012• 58 students received funding from SAI to participate in internships and conduct research on or about the South Asia region.

4 Harvard students (2 graduate students from HKS and HLS,

and 2 undergraduates) accompanied John Briscoe,

Professor at HSPH and SEAS, to Pakistan in Summer, 2011Under Briscoe’s direction, the

students researched inter-provincial water issues,

including discussion of current legal and institutional

framework for water allocation that exists in Pakistan

The South Asia Initiative at Harvard UniversityHarvard Faculty and Students in the Region

Multidisciplinary Approach to University Leader Development

Workshop Schedule

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

UniversityMuseums

Innovation at Harvard

University Leadership

Knowledge Transfer

Participant Centered Learning

Liberal Arts Education

Innovating Medical

Technologies

Adult Development

Libraries in the 21st Century

Library operations &

services

University Admissions

University Fundraising

& Development

Cultural & Religious Literacy:

On Campus & Online Outcomes &

Opportunities

Scholarly Research & Policy Setting

Universities as Change Agents

Research in Social Sciences

Global Studies in K-12 and Universities


Workshop Schedule


UniversityMuseums



Knowledge Transfer



Innovating Medical

Technologies

Adult Development



services



& Development



Opportunities





Bill Fitzsimmons, Harvard College Admissions and Financial Aid

Deirdre Leopold, HBS Admissions and Financial Aid

Knowledge and Library ServicesBaker Library

Harvard Business School

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Harvard Innovation Lab

Widener Library

Paul Keenan, Senior Associate Dean and Director of

Development


Workshop Schedule


UniversityMuseums



Knowledge Transfer



Innovating Medical

Technologies

Adult Development



services



& Development



Opportunities





Michael Shiner, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Deborah Cunningham,Primary Source

Vish Viswanath, Harvard School of Public Health

Merilee Grindle, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Laurence Winnie, Harvard Academy for Area and International Studies

Dustin Tingley, Assistant Professor of GovernmentCharles Stang, Associate

Professor of Early Christian Thought

Parimal Patil, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Ali Asani, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Tarun Khanna, HBS and SAI

Jorge Dominguez, Vice Provost for International Affairs

Conor Walsh, School of Engineering and Applied

Sciences

SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVEat Harvard University

http://southasiainitiative.harvard.edu/

A Multidisciplinary Approach to University Leader Development July 30 – August 3, 2012 INTRODUCTION.

Documents

harvard school of engineering

john harvard

harvard university events

harvard university map

harvard college

cambridge university

introduction slide

south asia initiative