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Seven Revolutions

Topic:

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) created a program entitled the Seven Revolutions, a strategic look at planet earth out to the year 2025. The program identified seven areas of change expected to be most revolutionary:

Population
Resource management and environmental stewardship
Technological innovation and diffusion
The development and dissemination of information and knowledge
Economic integration
The nature and mode of conflict
The challenge of governance

The program was created to identify and analyze the key policy challenges that policymakers, business figures, and citizens will face out to the year 2025. CSIS wants to promote strategic thinking on the long-term trends that too few leaders take the time to consider.

Goals:

The Seven Revolutions initiative is a partnership between CSIS, an international policy center in Washington, D.C., The New York Times, and eight AASCU member institutions. The goal of the Seven Revolutions initiative is to translate the Seven Revolutions identified by CSIS into curricular and co-curricular programs for undergraduates, producing strategies, materials, and programs to develop globally-competent citizens. The Seven Revolution initiative is the only of the national initiatives to be focused internationally, preparing American citizens to be informed about world issues and capable of making judgments as American citizens about global issues.

Achievements:

In June 2009, the Seven Revolutions Scholars led the first Seven Revolutions Institute. Representatives attended this institute from AASCU institutions that are interested in educating globally-competent citizens. In addition to hosting this institute, the Seven Revolutions Scholars created the Teaching Seven Revolutions: A Tool Kit for Educating Globally Competent Citizens, a collection of curriculum objects and materials that facilitate the teaching of the Seven Revolutions. In 2010, the Seven Revolutions Scholars will host the second annual Seven Revolutions Institute at the ADP National Meeting.