Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Publications
Title
The principles of tomorrow's university
Campus Units
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Statistics, Office of the Vice President for Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
12-11-2018
Journal or Book Title
F1000Research
Volume
7
Issue
1926
First Page
1
Last Page
23
DOI
10.12688/f1000research.17425.1
Abstract
In the 21st Century, research is increasingly data- and computation-driven. Researchers, funders, and the larger community today emphasize the traits of openness and reproducibility. In March 2017, 13 mostly early-career research leaders who are building their careers around these traits came together with ten university leaders (presidents, vice presidents, and vice provosts), representatives from four funding agencies, and eleven organizers and other stakeholders in an NIH- and NSF-funded one-day, invitation-only workshop titled "Imagining Tomorrow's University." Workshop attendees were charged with launching a new dialog around open research – the current status, opportunities for advancement, and challenges that limit sharing.
The workshop examined how the internet-enabled research world has changed, and how universities need to change to adapt commensurately, aiming to understand how universities can and should make themselves competitive and attract the best students, staff, and faculty in this new world. During the workshop, the participants re-imagined scholarship, education, and institutions for an open, networked era, to uncover new opportunities for universities to create value and serve society. They expressed the results of these deliberations as a set of 22 principles of tomorrow's university across six areas: credit and attribution, communities, outreach and engagement, education, preservation and reproducibility, and technologies.
Activities that follow on from workshop results take one of three forms. First, since the workshop, a number of workshop authors have further developed and published their white papers to make their reflections and recommendations more concrete. These authors are also conducting efforts to implement these ideas, and to make changes in the university system. Second, we plan to organise a follow-up workshop that focuses on how these principles could be implemented. Third, we believe that the outcomes of this workshop support and are connected with recent theoretical work on the position and future of open knowledge institutions.
Access
Open
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Copyright Owner
Daniel S. Katz et al.
Copyright Date
2018
Language
en
File Format
HTML
Recommended Citation
Katz, Daniel S.; Howe, Adina; Nusser, Sarah M.; and et al., "The principles of tomorrow's university" (2018). Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Publications. 994.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/abe_eng_pubs/994
Comments
This article is published as Katz, Daniel S., Adina Howe, Sarah M. Nusser, et al. "The principles of tomorrow's university [version 1; referees: 2 approved]" F1000Research 7, no. 1926 (2018). DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.17425.1. Posted with permission.