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2019
DOI: 10.18060/22813
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Tackling Grand Challenges

Abstract: In recent years, grand challenge initiatives have emerged nationally with the goal of addressing large, multidisciplinary public problems. The advent of university-led grand challenge initiatives offers an important opportunity to reflect on how institutions of higher education design, implement, and orient externally relevant activities at a time of public skepticism. With a focus on public problem solving, grand challenge initiatives offer a way to re-engage the public’s imagination and faith in higher educa… Show more

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“…Universities are also leveraging institution-wide priorities to explore innovative ways of bringing together faculty, students, and community members to advance CEnR. For example, DePrince and DiEnno (2019) recently described the process of prioritizing CEnR principles to build an institutional grand challenge initiative that brought faculty and students together with community members in collective impact cohorts. The members of these interdisciplinary cohorts participated together in a facilitated process to build shared agendas and take collaborative action.…”
Section: Practical Guidance For Preparing Students Faculty and Instit...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Universities are also leveraging institution-wide priorities to explore innovative ways of bringing together faculty, students, and community members to advance CEnR. For example, DePrince and DiEnno (2019) recently described the process of prioritizing CEnR principles to build an institutional grand challenge initiative that brought faculty and students together with community members in collective impact cohorts. The members of these interdisciplinary cohorts participated together in a facilitated process to build shared agendas and take collaborative action.…”
Section: Practical Guidance For Preparing Students Faculty and Instit...mentioning
confidence: 99%