ISCN 2016: Pre-conference workshop
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This document provides an overview of the agenda for the ISCN 2016 pre-conference. It includes: - A joint session on insights from ISCN and IARU with presentations on overviews of both organizations and member experiences. - A workshop scenario where participants convene as university executives to develop guiding principles for a new sustainable university. They discuss functions represented and challenges in choosing principles. - A second activity where groups determine focus areas for the new university in the first 3, 5, and 10 years and how the focus would scale over time. Discussion follows on fitting these principles within existing universities and reimagining frameworks.
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