- Enable
our students to recognize the possible challenges and opportunities
facing us in our rapidly changing society.
- Assist
our students develop forecasting, decision-making and planning
capabilities.
- Groom
integrative abilities into our research to enrich individual
specializations with broad-based knowledge to solve dynamic
problems.
- Develop
futures research into information, society and culture as short-term
domain of emphasis; and use STEEP as an integrative methodology
for medium- to long-term emphasis; the futures of our economy
and society will be our primary concern, with technology and
environment as secondary.
- Research
into the field of futures studies through the involvement of
primarily faculty members, together with national and international
scholars in order to discover, predict and investigate future
problems.
- Deploy
a nucleus of futures studies experts engaged in the design and
teaching of Futures Studies curricula.
- Identify
new research directions by using existing academic and research
resources to integrate information from seminars, interviews
of experts and international conferences to benefit industry,
government and academia.
- Actively
engage in the teaching and research into Future Studies, as
well as promote the futures orientation of education.
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