The Council on Competitiveness has appointed President Michael R. Lovell to co-chair its new University Leadership Forum.
The Council on Competitiveness is a national, nonpartisan group of business, academic, labor and scientific leaders working to enhance U.S. productivity, competitiveness, spur innovation and raise the standard of living for all Americans. Learn more at compete.org.
Officially launched on June 18 in Washington, D.C., the Council on Competitiveness University Leadership Forum will enable leaders from America’s top academic institutions to join forces with business leaders and national laboratories to understand the changing innovation landscape, impact policy making related to science and technology, and prepare tomorrow’s workforce.
As part of its initial work plan, the University Leadership Forum will address challenges and opportunities in three broad areas:
- “extreme innovation” to help solve the world’s greatest challenges;
- partnerships between universities and industry; and
- the fusion of the humanities and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines.
“I’m thrilled to be co-leading this impressive group of visionary academic leaders who will help develop solutions to current and future challenges to U.S. competitiveness,” President Lovell said. “Jesuit education is steeped in a tradition of innovation, based on St. Ignatius of Loyola’s philosophy that we should ‘live with one foot raised’ in order to confidently change and adapt to meet the needs of any situation.”
The University Leadership Forum includes senior leaders from Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Howard University, the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame, among others. Jere W. Morehead, president of the University of Georgia, is co-chairing the forum with President Lovell.