A Webcast with Erik R. Peterson and Felice Nudelman

Webcast Details
Live Interactive Webcast
March 4, 2008
2:00 - 3:30 PM, Eastern Time
Price: $245

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Presenter
Erik R. Peterson, Senior Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Moderator
Felice Nudelman, Director of Education, The New York Times

Webcast Description
How well prepared are our students, teachers, citizens and leaders to understand and address the major global issues shaping our world in the years leading up to 2025?

Join Erik R. Peterson, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a bipartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C., for his fast-paced presentation discussing the seven areas of change that he expects to be most "revolutionary" - population, resource management, technology, knowledge flows, economic integration, conflict and governance.

Tune in after the briefing (multimedia PowerPoint) for a live question and answer session with Peterson. Audience questions will be accepted by phone and text.

We encourage you to use this program as part of a campus conversation about how to design an undergraduate curriculum for the 21st century or as a way to get your organization to think more strategically about its long-term goals and objectives.

CSIS's Seven Revolutions project is designed to promote strategic, forward-looking thinking on long-term trends among current and future leaders. According to Peterson, "Decision-making on short-term issues consistently crowds out systematic thinking on strategic matters; the press of real-time information compresses the decision-making process; and compartmentalized analysis obfuscates integrated thinking and approaches. As a result, the longer-term gets little, if any, attention no matter what the results, no matter how profound the consequences."

About the Presenter

Erik Peterson is senior vice president at CSIS and holds the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis, an endowed position named in honor of the Merrill Lynch chairman emeritus and CSIS Executive Committee member. He is also director of the Center's Global Strategy Institute, the mandate of which is to assess long-range policy challenges and opportunities. In addition, he leads the Seven Revolutions Initiative, a broad-based effort to forecast key trends out to the year 2025.

From 1993 to 2003, Mr. Peterson served as director of studies at CSIS. In that capacity, he was responsible for the planning and development of the wide range of research projects at the Center. Mr. Peterson came to the Center from Kissinger Associates, where he was director of research.

He holds an M.B.A. in international finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in international law and economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. from Colby College. He holds the Certificate of Eastern European Studies from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the Certificate in International Legal Studies from The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands. For the past seven years, Mr. Peterson has co-taught a course on global trends at the Schreyer Honors College at Pennsylvania State University. He has also lectured on international economics and finance and geopolitical risk at many colleges and universities, including Chapman and George Mason Universities, Georgia Tech, and the Wharton School.

Currently, he is a member of the Global Risk Network of the World Economic Forum, a board member of the Center for Global Business Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of the Presidency. In September 2006, in recognition of his achievements at the Center, Mr. Peterson was named by the CSIS Board of Trustees as its 2006-2007 Trustees Fellow.

About the Moderator

Felice Nudelman, director of education, joined The New York Times as the college marketing manager in 2000. Ms. Nudelman oversees the NexGen group and is responsible for developing national strategies, marketing and new business opportunities in the education segment. In 2002, she received The Times "GrandSlam Award" for her work. As director, she also oversees development of the nytimes.com/college website and the online subscription pages for students and faculty.

Ms. Nudelman also launched a partnership with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities on student civic engagement, the American Democracy Project. The project has grown to 220 university partners representing over 1.7 million students. From this model additional partnerships were launched with the independent colleges, the women's colleges and other education associations.

Before joining The Times, Ms. Nudelman served as executive director for Pace University's School of Education. She served on Pace University's committee for continuing, corporate and distance education and on the Associate and Assistant Dean's committee engaged in the formation of policy and procedures and strategic planning for administrative functions. In 1997 she received Pace's Outstanding Contribution award for her work. Previously, Ms. Nudelman was Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Bloomfield College. While there she was awarded the National Academic Advising Association's award for Best Advising Program in the country. In addition to teaching courses in the humanities and arts divisions she worked with a team of faculty to develop a women's studies interdisciplinary minor.

In 2007, Ms. Nudelman, Nancy Cooley, and Dan Dunn led a session on leading and managing change for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, MDP seminar. This presentation was published in the Harvard newsletter. She serves on the Pace University Center for Urban Education Advisory Board, and is Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors for The National Teachers Hall of Fame. Ms. Nudelman obtained her B.A. in Fine Arts and Philosophy from Allegheny College and MFA from Pratt Institute. She received an MDP certificate from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Who Should Attend
Academic and institutional leaders have used this content-rich program to focus on strategic trends and long-range thinking as they shaped their institutional curriculum and their academic plans. This program is suitable for all organizations or audiences seeking to think long-term about the world around them. It is designed to stimulate strategic thinking about major global influences which will impact us all. Seven Revolutions is also an excellent program to share with students to engage them in these discussions.

What Is Needed to Participate in the Webcast
Due to the proprietary nature of the content of this webcast, there will be no CD archive of this program. You must participate in the live event to view this program. Due to copyright restrictions, no recording of any kind (video, audio, etc.) will be permitted.

This program will be delivered by live streaming video with accompanying audio. You will need a computer with an Internet connection and speakers from your computer to project the sound to your audience. A data projector can also be used to share the presentation to a larger group at your location under that single connection. There is no limit to the number of participants at a single listening site.

One low fee purchases a single link to the broadcast. After you register, you will be forwarded an email with preliminary information about the broadcast and how to access it. Four days before the live broadcast you will receive an e-mail titled "NYT/SCUP Webcast Instructions." It will contain information about how to test your computer and provides a password to access the program.

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