Shape the Sciences
The Imperative to Create a New Generation of
Leaders to Build a Sustainable Future for Mankind
Shape the Sciences
The Imperative to Create a New Generation of
Leaders to Build a Sustainable Future for Mankind
Introduction
Greta Thunberg tells us to follow the science. We must enable her and future generations to acquire the skills, expertise, influence, and mandates to create a more sustainable human presence on our planet. A multi-discipline transformation focused seamless global brain trust expert in the necessary science, social science, and creative disciplines, determined to address the multidisciplinary challenges, partnered with the United Nations, spanning from the high-income countries to the most vulnerable ones, if nurtured with education and with mentoring, can help lead humankind to a more sustainable future. (Our vision statement is below.)
Just fifteen of the leading universities in North America provide 1,000 international students every year with competitively earned full four-year degrees, earning undergraduate scholarships. That comes to a dispersed international student body of 4,000 students at any one time in the greater Northeast of North America. These fifteen universities with endowed funds of over two hundred twenty billion dollars have been educating international students for well over a century. In recent months, Harvard and MIT sold edX.org, their online education website, for eight hundred million dollars. They have now founded the Axim Collaborative to reimagine how communities can learn and are searching for collaborators. (Our mission statement is below.)
Our program is based upon thirty years of experience assisting students from all regions of Ukraine to earn full four-year American college scholarships. Our sixty-one four-year college scholarship winners have earned and benefited from 13.5 million dollars in international boarding school and American college scholarships through our previous USA/USA Program. These students have come from twenty-five Ukrainian cities and towns in sixteen regions (oblasts). They have attended thirty-three colleges in nineteen states and seventeen boarding schools in seven American states and four other countries. Our alums have engendered twenty-three billion dollars of beneficial activity in the United States, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation.
Our transformed vision will put a much greater emphasis on focused long-term building of a global brain trust for all of humankind in partnership with home countries and the United Nations. (Our strategy statement is below.)
Bohdan A. Oryshkevich
USA
Yuriy Vynnychuk
Italy
Vision Statement
In a generation, our planet will, because of our program, have a seamless global network of technically expert, resolute activist scientists, social scientists, humanists, financiers, leaders, and local activists who will have mastered the multidisciplinary skills necessary to address climate change. They will self-manage, grow their program, and work toward a more sustainable human presence on Earth.
In a generation, we will be providing talent and partnering as essential partners with international organizations such as the United Nations, home governments, research universities, and local institutions in various projects.
New York City will be the successful model urban living laboratory, and Ukraine will be the model national living laboratory.
All the big data, the small data, the knowledge, and the expertise our program will generate will be available to all humankind.
Mission Statement
Climate change is an existential threat to future human generations.
Therefore, we must comprehensively and effectively educate and empower future generations to address Anthropocene-generated climate change and its impact on individuals, societies, other biological life, and our planet. Our mission is to enable future generations of talented students from all parts of our world to not only master but also to shape the sciences for humankind for it to live more sustainably.
Our best North American universities are a logical place to begin this education and this global transformation. They have one-hundred-eighty years of experience educating students from abroad. They have very substantial permanent funds enabling them to provide this education. They also have a proven record of educating and engaging world leaders.
Our responsibility will be to find, select, and prepare the best and most climate-resolute students outside the United States to enter our best North American universities and acquire these skills. We will mentor them, nurture their well-being, network them, and develop their talents during and after their higher education.
We will work in partnership with, but independent of, the universities our students enter, with the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, its relevant partner agencies, and international not-for-profit organizations dedicated to addressing education in the context of climate change.
An intrinsic hardwired mission of our program will be to share with all countries on our planet all the knowledge, expertise, and big and small data our students and programs generate.
Strategy Statement
Our initial strategy is based upon specific higher education objectives exploiting fully funded international degree-earning four-year undergraduate opportunities at North America’s leading colleges and universities.
Our immediate strategy is to find talented climate-concerned students capable of earning these scholarships. We will see, attract, preselect, and prepare them for successful college admission with total funding.
We are already working on specific, primarily online beachhead projects in biology and vaccine development, oceanography, and renewable energy. These beachhead projects will enable us to recruit, select, and prepare talent for university education in North America, to develop partners in home countries, to introduce our program to global partners and sponsors, to help us to define and refine our mission, and to begin to realize our vision.
Parallel and hardwired to this effort, we will establish relevant educational strategies to seed relevant knowledge, expertise, big data, and small data in the countries and regions from which we attract students.
Education, networking, building teams, and nurturing knowledge in vulnerable areas will be the lifeblood of our effort.
