To Think as Nature Thinks
Optimizing Connectivity: Envisioning the University as a Complex Living System
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Renaissance Center seeks to cultivate and challenge the common interests of educators, leaders from business and government, artists, scientists and entrepreneurs, and to serve as a springboard to collaboration, research and social change.
An overview of
Renaissance Thinking
Groundwork and Backstory
Raison d'etre for the Renaissance Center
Guiding Principles and Signature Methodology
Imagination, Synergy, Creativity and Connectivity.
Pilot Year Report
Case history at the University at Albany
Creative Leaps International and
the Strategic Planning Project at UAlbany
A Concert of Ideas
Founding Sponsors & Donors
A Huge THANK YOU to our Founding Sponsors and Donors!
The Renaissance Center completed its 18-month pilot year at the University at Albany with funding from two principal sources: the University President’s Office, Dr. James R. Stellar, interim president, and a President’s Discretionary Grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Dr. Vartan Gregorian, president.
Additional Funding Sources
The President’s Discretionary Grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York arrived in the spring of 2018. In-kind contributions from the University, including significant dedicated staff time from the Provost’s Office, pro bono services provided by Renaissance Center founder John Cimino, and extensive pricing discounts from Creative Leaps International, also featured prominently in support of the Renaissance Center’s pilot year.
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