{"id":1988,"date":"2008-02-14T17:13:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T22:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2008-02-14T17:13:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T22:13:21","slug":"new-universities-and-new-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"New universities and new presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compare the announcement of KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaust.edu.sa\/video-interview.aspx\">KAUST&#8217;s Unique Vision<\/a> to John Maeda&#8217;s vision for the Rhode Island School of Design, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.risd.edu\/president\/\">risd&#8217;s next president<\/a>. KAUST will be a new university with a large endowment that is for graduate students only. RISD is a design school that has just hired one of the leaders in design and technology away from MIT&#8217;s Media Lab. They are both exciting developments, but different in so many ways. Here is part of the vision of the new president of KAUST:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>to conduct high impact research unconstrained by disciplinary boundaries, to create a new ecosystem for research unfettered by organizational strictures, and to build meaningful partnerships across communities, cultures and continents. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaust.edu.sa\/about\/presidents-message.aspx\">President&#8217;s Acceptance Message<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Alex for the KAUST link and to Shawn for the RISD link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare the announcement of KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) KAUST&#8217;s Unique Vision to John Maeda&#8217;s vision for the Rhode Island School of Design, risd&#8217;s next president. KAUST will be a new university with a large endowment that is for graduate students only. RISD is a design school that has just hired one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New universities and new presidents<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-education","category-education-and-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}