RISE 2019 Conference

Presidents’ Roundtable: The Role of Higher Education in Addressing Community Resilience through the University-Community Relationship

 

Time: 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM, November 18

Location: Ballroom - Campus Center

The Presidents’ Roundtable will focus on a series of resilience-related challenges confronting institutions of higher education and their interface with the communities in which they live and serve. Effective higher education engagement is increasingly critical before, during, and after disasters – a growing global concern in the face of climate change and weather extremes. The Roundtable will explore the multiple roles and responsibilities of academic leadership in this area. First, the Roundtable will probe how institutions of higher education and the campuses in which they reside need to be prepared for extreme weather and climate-related disasters. Second, this leaders’ discussion will examine how universities and colleges can work with communities adversely impacted by disasters through community partnership for response and recovery. Third, academic institutions have extraordinary capacity to contribute to building knowledge, competence and human capital for a more resilient society. The Roundtable will delve into the range of challenges and opportunities for universities and colleges to leverage transformative research and development, education and training, service learning and community partnership, along with humanitarian relief to bolster community resilience from the local to global levels.