Anchor Institutions and their Public Mission Nancy Cantor Chancellor Rutgers University Newark Broader Impacts Infrastructure Summit Arlington VA April 16 2014 Innovation amp Opportunity Making ID: 622726
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Broader Impacts:
Anchor Institutions and their
Public Mission
Nancy
Cantor
ChancellorRutgers University – NewarkBroader Impacts Infrastructure SummitArlington, VAApril 16, 2014Slide2
Innovation & Opportunity Making
Morrill Act of 1862Slide3
STEM Success
BROADER
IMPACTS
Pressing
ChallengesInnovativePartnershipsBroadeningParticipationPublicAppreciationSlide4
Metro Challenges
The Talent Dividend
Increasing four-year college attainment rate in nation’s 51 largest metropolitan areas by 1% = $124B increase in aggregate annual personal income
.
The Green DividendReducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT) per person by one mile per day in 51 largest metro areas = $29B annual household savings.The Opportunity DividendReducing poverty rates in metropolitan areas by 1% = $13B decrease annually in public sector outlays for family assistance, Medicaid and food stamps.
Collaborative Research Is Becoming More Popular, NSF Report Says
The National Science Foundation has urged universities that are concerned about securing federal research dollars in a time of increasing budget pressures to collaborate
Biological Sciences
Engineering
Social,
Behavioral & Economic Sciences
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Geosciences
Computer & Information Science & Engineering
STEM OpportunitiesSlide5
Newark’s Challenges/Opportunities
Arts & Culture District
Education
Strong Healthy Neighborhoods
Economic Development
BROADBAND
SUPERIORITY
Jazz House Kids
Glassroots
STEM
→
STEAM
Healthy AgingSlide6
Community of Experts
African American Brain Health Initiative partners
African Americans & Alzheimer’s Disease research team
Meadowlands Environment
Research Institute
Palisades Interstate Park
Commission
City of Newark
ExxonMobil
Ontash
&
Ermac
Weston
Solutions, Inc
.
Newark Museum
Newark Public Schools
Liberty
State
Park
Dupont
Newark Museum
Liberty Science Center
PSE&G
Tyco Industries
Langan
Engineering
GEI Consultants
CitiGroup
ConocoPhillips
Amerada
Hess
Earth & Environmental Sciences PartnersSlide7
Broader Participation
Biologists Dominic Evangelista and Jessica Ware with the subjects of their invasive insect research
Alec Gates mentors budding geologists to perform and present research
Middle
schoolers
get hands-on experience with an Antarctic undersea robot glider
NSF GK-12 Fellow Andrew
Parsikian
teaches Newark high
schoolers
to use sensing equipment to explore a slave cemeterySlide8
Public Support
Knowledge Unearthed
Rutgers program lets young students search for 1779 graves
New Rutgers research center will study Parkinson’s disease
Center will link cognitive neuroscientists with doctors
Mangia! Mangia!Rutgers researchers find tomatoes help prevent breast cancerEncROACHmentJoin Rutgers University roach researchers as they unravel clues to identify this intruder
Ocean Drones Plumb New Depths
Teams hope to capture the most complete picture yet of the Atlantic’s many mysterious underwater movementsSlide9
Institutional Accountability
How
does work involving your institution bring together the practices
of diversity
and public scholarship/civic engagement?Who is involved and how do they work together?Where is this work situated in relation to the core values of your institution?What are examples of products or outcomes of this work that have emerged or can be envisioned?How is this work supported, rewarded, and shared?From Sturm, Eatman, Saltmarsh, & Bush 2011
Full Participation: Building the Architecture for Diversity and Community Engagement in Higher EducationSlide10
Institutional Infrastructure