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NSF PA/M 97-36 - December 9, 1997

Challenges Facing American Higher Education

In a lecture to National Science Foundation staff on Dec. 15, former University of California-Berkeley chancellor Chang-Lin Tien will examine "four great forces which are transforming the world, each posing a special challenge for higher education and the research community."

Tien says these forces are: (1) the spread of democracy and the free market; (2) the increasing importance of the internationalization and multiculturalism of the world community; (3) the information and telecommunications revolution; and (4) the demand for better quality of life and health care.

Tien assumed the post of NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering on July 1, following seven years as UC-Berkeley chancellor. While chancellor, he was also the A. Martin Berlin Chair in Mechanical Engineering. Internationally recognized for his scholarly contributions in the field of heat transfer, he is known also as a staunch advocate of efforts to ensure ethnic diversity and opportunity in education.

• Who: Chang-Lin Tien, NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering
  University of California-Berkeley
• What: Engineering Distinguished Lecture:
  "Future Challenges Facing American Higher Education"
• Where: National Science Foundation Building, Room 375
  4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va.
  Metro: Ballston stop on the orange line
• When: 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 15, 1997

For more information contact:
George Chartier
(703) 306-1070/gchartie@nsf.gov

 
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