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Monday, October 26, 2020
https://ic-sd.org/ AT UNGA75 SEPT 2020 FIRSTUN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TO ZOOM WORLDWIDE AS COVID PREVENTED LEADERS ASSEMBLING FOR WEEK IN EW YORK
Session 1 DEBATE FAILURE
TO ACHIEVE SDGS WILL BE FAILURE OF UNIVERSITY
Plenary 1, University Leadership for the Decade of Action
03:00 – 04:00 UTC | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Bwtrg9IpDnypQ7t_jjAYQ
The
session will showcase innovative approaches that universities in the
Asia/Pacific region are implementing to increase their societal value and
impact on the SDGs, as well as the challenges and opportunities to accelerate
these actions and make them part of a new “business-as-usual” for universities.
The session is partially in response to the challenge made by President Mike Crow of
Arizona State University at a recent event of the UN Higher Education Sustainability
Initiative, that universities need to change the way they operate and be more
connected to the community to have real impact.
Speakers:
- John Thwaites, Chair, Monash
Sustainable Development Institute (Moderator)
- Michael Crow, President,
Arizona State University
- Dawn Freshwater,
Vice-Chancellor, University of Auckland
- Kit Poon, Professor, School of
Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
john thwaites -welcome everyone to this un plenary session
where we're going to discuss what universities
need to do to contribute to lasting positive impact
in achieving the sustainable development goals
00:46
universities can certainly help implement the
goals through their research their education
their operations and through their leadership in
the community
00:59
universities say they want to have a positive
impact on the world and on
implementation of the sdgs but are universities
really up to it
01:12
do universities need to change to be more
connected to their communities
and to have a real and lasting impact on the
sustainable development goals
01:22
this is the subject that we're going to discuss
in this plenary session of the international conference today
01:30
we're going to discuss how universities need to change
and also hear about some specific
measures that universities are taking to
maximize their impact
01:42
we've got some really outstanding speakers at
universities who have bee
grappling with this challenge of relevance and
impact
01:53
our first speaker is mike crowe who is the
president of arizona state university
and has spearheaded that university's evolution
into one of the world's most innovative
universities focused on global complex
challenges..
under president crowe's leadership asu has established
25 new transdisciplinary schools but also
trailblazing initiatives including the julianne
wrigley global institute of sustainability
today's session at the icsd was really inspired
by president crowe and the address he
recently gave to a meeting of university presidents
organized by the sustainable
development solutions network associated with
the high-level political forum at the united nations in
july this year
at that
meeting president crow threw out a challenge to universities and said that they
need to change the way they operate if we're to have real impact now i'd like
to welcome president crow
03:13
thank you uh john it's great to see you
03:15
And i
really welcome chance to be here
particularly with this 10-year focus of leadership
for the decade UN action and really with a focus on
universities and i want to say something
seemingly outlandish
03:36
1 our non-attainment of the kind of sustainability
development goals that we're all working toward -that is our difficulty in reaching
any of these goals- people want to attribute highly economically
capitalists who are at the end of the day too greedy
to be able to attain these goals
and i would say that's certainly an issue
2 but as big an issue are the universities themselves
and i'd like to put on the table the notion that universities are as responsible
for our predicament as any other class of institutions
-and the reason i can say that -and we could
spend a lot of time working to justify that statement-
is that here we are about 400 years into the whole
notion of organized science -the whole notion of uh
the
massive understanding that we have of nature today
04:31
some of
our disciplines are 400 years old, some 200 years old
their modern science and what's the net- but
what is the net outcome of that?
04:42
outcome one- that we have human driven climate
change
regardless of our insights, regardless of our
knowledge , regardless of our perspectives
04:52
we still have ended up in a predicament where
we've become the dominant negative driving force in the
relationship between ourselves as a species and
the planet
so for all our insights and all of our knowledge
and all of our achievements here we are and so and so we don't know as much as
we think that we know or if we know it we don't know how to communicate it
or if we know it and don't know how to communicate
it we don't know how to get it working
05:18
second we’re
400 years into this massive renaissance- this massive uh
a set of insights and scientific understandings
and scientific perspectives yet we have
massive and accelerating inequities among our
people
05:34 and these inequities are even attributable
to only some being able to benefit from the
insights and perspectives and the tools and the
knowledge and the scientific
understandings that we have
05:46
i think a very significant net outcome of our
400 years of accumulated science
and accelerated science third for whatever
reason
we've decided to live in an ancient cave-like
structure where one body of knowledge economics and another body of knowledge
science and another body of knowledge technology and another body of knowledge medicine
and another body of knowledge behavior have a few overlapping and
connecting insights and perspectives but for the
most part they're disconnected
06:16
we have we have not spent much energy or time on
the notion of a unifying set of
theories or practices, we've not spent much time
teaching people to understand other
disciplines, understand other knowledge at the
level that we should
06:30
and so this third area the set of disconnected
theories, disconnected bodies
have not really put us into a position where you
know whatever we do there's some
argument against it, there's some lack of understanding
there's some lack of
respect-06:43
the physicists don't respect biologists; the biologists
don't respect the social scientists uh to the degree
that they should and so therefore we haven't
made unified conceptualization about how to move
forward
06:57
and then the fourth and final net outcome of 400
years of accelerating science
is that we have accepted within our account within
the universities themselves not
all but most prominently the case a slow
institution
07:10
with no reality based in regular time measurement-
the climate is changing and advancing, and any of
the outcomes we're now
beginning to experience are moving faster than
our institutions even gather
to meet and discuss things
07:24
and so I
am not being facetious when I say we universities are
a slow
sector , we are siloed and i also say that we end up being
accepting of the selfish behavior and in our own
inward lookingness
07:46 given the above
what can we do in this 10-year time frame? what
is the need for immediate change
in academic world or enough of the academic
world to make a difference
07:56
So first on my list is that sustainability and human
medicine need to become equal things within the
university sector-- at most major research
universities there are
medical schools have massive facilities and
massive investments and massive national
investments -in u.s alone 40 billion invested a
year from the national institutes of health and the
billions invested a year through the hospital
operations of the of the research grade medical schools uh
08:28
looking at you know one of the most significant scientific
undertaking humans have ever
embarked on and while not asking for the
diminishment of those
we need to somehow realize that the health and
well-being of the relationship between the
humans and our ecosystems on which we're dependent
and the sustainability of that
is the success of the individual human and
human medicine perspective and so number 1 we
need to change the status of sustainability, sustainability outcomes,
sustainability science and so forth dramatically within the university hierarchy
9.20 second a need for immediate change in the
next 10 years within universities
and that is sustainability needs to become an
area of new unifying intellectual activity
what i call: an outcome science-you know
we have no problem suggesting that we have an
outcome science in medicine
we have no problem suggesting that we have an
outcome science in public health
09:44
but somehow for lots of reasons: political
reasons, economic reasons, laziness within the universities lack of intellectual
energy, lack of creativity we've not found a way to do this relative to
sustainability so i'm
arguing that a second thing that we need to do
is we need to make sustainability an acceptable
outcome-oriented science
which is not with less than a curiosity driven
science not less than an engineering technology or science
area but has the same kind of status in our institutions
10:16
third in terms of change within the ten years
and this is something that we may end up having to learn the hard way-you know
the fact that we already have the 1.5 degrees Celsius uh temperature change for
the earth, already pretty much locked in other more dramatic changes going
forward in terms of the way thing
are working it's clear to me that university
class speeds are too slow we're evolving too slowly
10:44
this is not a normal thing this is not a normal era=
we need to speed up the clock speeds of
universities in terms of their intellectual organization
their integration unifying intellectual sciences
around sustainability the notion of launching uh
medical level efforts related to sustainability all
more quickly as well as finding out how to
communicate our results more quicklyand not only through academic outlets
11.15 the fourth thing that is a need for
immediate change is the university's success metrics so
all the league tables all over the world about
this university is great and this
university is almost great and this university
was great and this university
could be great and this university doesn't know
what great means -uh to some
extent those are in fact to a large extent most
of those measures are
input measures and then a few output measures
but none of them
impact measures and so one of the things that we
need in the next 10 years is to
change universities around the notion of their
success metrics
11:46
we need to measure at least those universities
willing to be measured
on their impact on their communities related to
sdgs related to economic
progress related to socio-economic uh fairness
and egalitarian access to
socio-economic progress
we need to measure universities on whether
affecting the environmental
outcomes now people say run at universities how
can we be responsible
well how can we not be responsible if theory
after theory after theory and
model after model after model and no public body
is working rapidly enough to implement
them then there must be something wrong with the
message that comes with
the model or model is not easily able to be
implemented in a
political sense at least in certain kinds of
democracies or really complicated
democratic institutions and so another thing
that we should be measuring
: are we advancing the social learning capacity
of the general population
to be able to deal with the complexities that global
climate change and
sustainability sense
12:52
So in summary i'll tell you that we take this at
arizona state university to be
truly a
part of our central reason for existence
we just upgraded the julianne Wrigley global institute of
sustainability
13:07
we're calling it this laboratory in the spirit
of the national laboratory or
global laboratories that should be built around
something other than
weapons of mass destruction which is the case in
the united states for many of
our national laboratories or other things that
are not
representative of securing the totality of our
success going forward into the future
13:28
and so we've launched the global laboratory
building hundreds of millions of dollars of new facilities we've launched a new
global future college with a school of sustainability the first in the united
states already there school on social innovation
and social impact integrated around a new school
on complexity- all of those together and so for
us-what we theme of our institution
central raison d’etre -
and so let's understand who's responsible for this
poor set of sdg outcomes as any other set of
institutions we've got 400 years of being
inadequate to what we need and the
universities need to step up in very fast and 10 years is going to be
in 10 years we've got completely modified
institutions at least at some
universities- any questions?
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Thursday, October 15, 2020
October 15, 2020 | Noon - 2:15 pm ET
Our Virtual Forum focuses on one of the most important issues that we as a society must honestly reckon with – racial and economic inequities – and the importance of business leadership at a time when it's needed most.
View the detailed agenda below.
WELCOME
Lynne Filderman, Executive Producer
HOST OPENING REMARKS
Cecily Joseph, Advisor, Initiative for Equity & Social Justice, Presidio Graduate School and Board Chair, Net Impact
TAKING THE PULSE OF THE C-SUITE
Jinny Jeong, Manager, Corporate Leadership, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose
ONE: ONE INTERVIEW
Shundrawn Thomas, President, Northern Trust Asset Management
Jarami Bond, Chief Storyteller, Bond Studio
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP IN THE MOVEMENT FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Ben Passer, Director, Energy Access & Equity, Fresh Energy
Chris Miller, Head of Global Activism Strategy, Ben & Jerry's
Orson Aguilar, Principal, Policy & Advocacy, UnidosUS
Conroy Boxhill. Managing Director, Porter Novelli
ONE: ONE INTERVIEW
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Daryl Brewster, CEO, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP)
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ONE: ONE INTERVIEW
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Barby Siegel, CEO, Zeno Group
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Madhavi Bhasin, Director of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Okta
Edward Y. Wang, Director, Corporate Social Impact, Tides Foundation
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Ayanna Robinson, Chief Client Officer, Porter Novelli
HOST CLOSING REMARKS
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