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Empires of the Mind
By Shirley Ann Jackson
Throughout our country's history, U.S. colleges and
universities have had a rich tradition of scholarship in service to the
nation and to the world. This focus has been steady and
constant.
But change is the only real constant. Our continually shifting
world challenges us to refresh, to remove and replace, to modify, to
alter and adjust—in effect, to dust our intellectual house for the
new world order, which is flat and integrated, yet asymmetrical, and
unstable.
The movement toward global integration is rooted in human
motivations as old as history—the urge to explore, to discover, to
trade, to gain new knowledge, and to experience new cultures. For
centuries, countries have sought the means to do these things better,
accelerating the movement of people, technology, information, and ideas.
Advances in transportation and communications technology have greatly
facilitated trade and information exchange, and have begun to truly
interlink the planet. . . .
Excerpted from the winter 2007 issue of The Presidency. To
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