LSU launches Center for Collaborative Knowledge
May 2018
This spring, LSU launched its Center for Collaborative Knowledge, an incubator for interdisciplinary research and teaching and a major part of the University’s Strategic Plan 2025. The Louisiana Board of Regents officially recognized the center at its Jan. 8 meeting.
The Center for Collaborative Knowledge will cultivate major collaborative projects that cut across the colleges and schools at LSU, foster interdisciplinary classes aimed at integrating knowledge from multiple areas of scholarship and seek grant funding for interdisciplinary research.
As part of its launch this spring, the Center for Collaborative Knowledge hosted its inaugural conference, “Sustainable Cities and Communities,” April 12-13. The conference featured keynote talks from experts in computer science, religion, anthropology, ecology and creative writing to explore the challenges of life in modern cities and focus on opportunities for future growth and sustainability.
“This conference embodies the CCK’s aspirations to deepen and widen the university’s core mission as the place where ideas and expertise are shared across disciplines and across generations. The topic is not only a timely one – for Baton Rouge and other Gulf Coast cities and communities – but also one that shows just how much we all can profit by learning from one another,” said LSU Boyd Professor Suzanne Marchand, who has led a distinguished group of LSU professors charged with planning the center.
The Center for Collaborative Knowledge positions LSU to strengthen its commitment to serve as “an institution of learning, in the broadest and highest sense,” first articulated in its 1877 charter. Accordingly, the center sees to widen, deepen and intensify interdisciplinary research and teaching to better prepare LSU students and faculty to take on leadership roles in competitive marketplaces and to act as globally-engaged citizens in an increasingly complex world.
This article is adapted from a news release by LSU’s Heather Herman and Ernie Ballard. For the original article, please visit http://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2018/03/13cck.eb.php.