>> Jim Yong Kim: None
of us really knows what the future's going to look like.
We want to scour the world to try to find those things
that strike us as truly forward looking.
We think we're doing some of them right here --
our work in healthcare delivery, our work in women and science,
our work in sustainability.
Some of the work that we're doing right here we think is
leading the entire world already, but what we really need
to understand is what are those approaches to higher education
that will truly be game-changing,
and not only are we going to try to nurture those things
that we're already doing here that are game-changing,
but we're going to leave no stone unturned in terms
of looking everywhere to see
where higher education is truly being defined.
>> Carol Folt: We've never been at a moment
with higher education like the moment facing us right now.
We've been through a period of explosive generation
of new knowledge, and that's only going to accelerate.
We've had a period of globalization and reaching
out to cultures outside our own communities in our country
in a way that has been unprecedented.
It's happening at a speed that is phenomenal.
We have an aspiration as a country
to keep this business going.
It fuels our economy.
But we're also facing a moment of question,
when people are saying, is higher education
in America doing what we already always have dreamed
that it could do?
>> Jason Goodman: Certainly some aspects of tradition,
change over time or become antiquated and are updated,
but I think that the real heart of most traditions
at Dartmouth is to be innovative.
When you look at President Kemeny
and all the things he was doing
with computers way before anyone else had computers to work with,
and when you look at even President Dickey and all
of his -- the Great Issues course and everything
like that -- that was all innovative in its time
and it became a tradition that was enduring.
>> Denise Anthony: The great thing about Dartmouth is
that we actually engage our teaching in a way
that advances the research, so we bring our students,
even at the undergraduate level, into our research.
So we make them part of the research team.
They get into the lab, they get into the theater,
they come into our offices and talk with us
and they actually participate in the production of research.
>> Donald Pease: Dartmouth is a place that works by way
of what I would call the vital rhythm
of a liberal arts education.
It works by preserving what is in need of being sustained
from the past, and by envisioning what can transform,
not just for the sake of renovation but for the sake
of humanity, what can transform what's already been learned.
>> Jim Yong Kim: In 1946,
President John Sloan Dickey uttered these immortal words
to the incoming freshman class.
He said: "The world's troubles are your troubles,
but there's nothing wrong with the world that can't be fixed
by better human beings."
When I read those words, I thought, my goodness,
this is the most radical,
the most forward-thinking mission statement for a college
or university that I've ever heard.
And so what would it mean for us to really take that so seriously
that we shape our entire educational system
around that goal?
What would it mean to think about preparing young people
in a way that there's no problem in the world
that they can't tackle effectively.
>> Sabrina Yegela: The future for me is a future
where people just care more and are just more humane
and there's more humanity.
>> Jason Goodman: When I think about the future of Dartmouth,
I think of it as a place that continues to support students
in whatever it is that they want to pursue at the highest levels.
>> Mary Flanagan: Thinking about ways that you can innovate,
it's really hard to innovate within one discipline
without an outside perspective,
and Dartmouth's really well poised to be that place
for innovation because we have so much mixing
between Music Department and Computer Science and Film
and Media, and Environmental Studies.
So this is the place that that happens.
It's the scale of the campus.
It's the passion of the faculty and the students.
It's a very unique blend of those people coming together.
>> Denise Anthony: I think what's most exciting is really
trying to think about how you build on tradition
that we already have, and think about how we're going
to be not just relevant in the future, but we're going
to be leading the future.
As faculty members, we want to be leaders in our fields,
in our scholarly fields, but we're also thinking
about training the leaders of tomorrow so they can go out,
not just immediately after graduation
but throughout their lifetime and draw on the resources,
the skills, the education that they had here at Dartmouth
to be engaged in the world.
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