美国《时代》杂志最近发布了美国十佳大学校长:
1、 E. Gordon Gee of Ohio State University (俄亥俄州立大学)
2、 John Sexton of New York University (纽约大学)
3、 Mary Sue Coleman of the University of Michigan (密歇根大学)
4、 Michael Crow of Arizona State (亚利桑那州立大学)
5、 Scott Cowen of Tulane (杜兰大学)
6、 Ronald Liebowitz of Middlebury College (米德伯里学院---文理学院)
7、 Freeman Hrabowski of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (马里兰大学)
8、 Eduardo Padron of Miami Dade College (迈阿密达德学院)
9、 Juliet Garcia of the University of Texas at Brownsville (德州大学布朗斯维尔分校)
10、 Mark Yudof of the University of California (加州大学)
以下为俄亥俄州立大学校长E. Gordon Gee:
他认为今天的大学应该是地区经济发展的引擎。俄亥俄州立大学在金融危机中受到的影响很小,和这位校长的精心治理是分不开的。
原文中有这样一段话很有启发:
In a world where brainpower outstrips muscle power, where innovation trumps conformity, where the nimble and creative stand to inherit the earth, higher education is the key to the next American century. Forget the ivory tower: colleges and universities are catalysts of economic development, stewards of public health, incubators of social policy and laboratories of discovery. Nearly every great national challenge — from the raising of our children to the quality of our food supply, from the hunt for clean energy to the struggle against insurgent enemies, from the quest for opportunity to the search for sustainable prosperity — depends for a solution on institutions of higher ed. Classrooms and labs are today what mines and factories were a century ago: America's regional economic powerhouses, one of the few certain engines of growth in good and bad economic times. As a result of these challenges and opportunities, college presidents are on the line as never before — and must be accessible and accountable to the public in a way that rivals or even surpasses what is required of public officials.
(译文:在智力战胜体力、创新胜过遵从、灵活性和创造力主宰的世界,高等教育成为下一个美国世纪的关键。不要再提象牙塔:大学正成为经济发展的催化剂、公共健康的管家、社会政策的孵化器和探索发现的实验室。几乎每项重大的国家挑战---从抚养我们的孩子到我们食品的质量,从寻找清洁能源到与叛乱的敌人作斗争,从对机会的探求到寻找可持续的繁荣---都依赖我们的高等教育机构提供解决方案。教室和实验室,像一个世纪以前的矿场和工厂一样,成为美国地区经济的力量源泉,是美国经济繁荣或萧条时代的当之无愧的经济引擎之一。正是这些挑战和机会,大学校长从没有像今天一样冒着风险---他们必须对公众有亲和力并能担当责任。)
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