Who Will Run the 21st Century? The Role of Education in Global Leadership in China, Europe, and the United States

On Thursday, September 10^th the Levin Institute, in conjunction with the American Council on Germany and Bucerius Education, hosted a discussion “Who Will Run the 21st Century? The Role of Education in Global Leadership in China, Europe, and the United States” a discussion with Markus Baumanns, Executive Vice President of ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius and Benjamin Lee, Senior Vice President for International Affairs and Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy at The New School for Social Research. The discussion was moderated by Levin President, Garrick Utley.

The conversation focused on the need for a new global model in higher education, one that might accommodate the complexities of an ever changing global world. The panelists emphasized the fact that the world currently operates on a U.S. centered university model and discussed the importance of opening up a dialog that includes a two way discussion. Lee and Baumanns also touched on the topic of creating a more interdisciplinary curriculum in the university system, in order to more accurately address the relationship between global systems. Benjamin Lee summed up by stating that, “Everything is interdisciplinary; there are not separate topics. We have to come to a more interdisciplinary exchange at the universities.”

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