No Borders

Arshad Ahmad

A Not-For-Profit University
Significant networks & strong academic microcultures
(Roxå & Mårtensson, 2011/2013; Mårtensson, 2014; Roxå, 2014)

Context

(Wenger, 1998; Clark, 1998; Cohen & Levinthal, 1990; Harvey & Stensaker, 2008)
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world;
indeed, it's the only thing that ever has”
Margaret Meade

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NO BORDERS
1. Shared Governance
2. Core Curriculum
3. Transdisciplinarity
4. Scholarship Redefined
5. Students as Partners
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1. Governance A Not-For-Profit-University

Board of Trustees
Trustee
Council
Advisory
Boards
V. Chancellor
& Provost

VC & P Council

University
University Council Committees

School
Councils

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2. Core Curriculum
Perry’s Model
(Culver & Macros, 1982)

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 3. Transdisciplinarity
Defining the Disciplines
Neumann, Parry, & Becher (2002)
Hard Pure (physics, chemistry) Soft Pure (history, anthropology)

Hard Applied (engineering) Soft Applied (education, management)

Trowler (2009)
Congruent Divergent

Urban Rural

Fanghanel (2009)
Epistemology Ideology

Functional Utalitarian
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4. No Border Scholarship

Boyer, E. (1990), Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Carnegie Foundation.

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5. Pedagogical Partnerships

Ahmad, A., Ali, A., VanMaaren, J., Barrington, J., Merritt, O., & Ansilio, K. (2017) .
Partnership in Practice: Implementing Healey’s Conceptual Model. International
Journal for Students as Partners 1(2) 12
NO BORDERS
1. Shared Governance
2. Core Curriculum
3. Transdisciplinarity
4. Scholarship Redefined
5. Students as Partners
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 Grand Challenges for the
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, (Phase II)
ISSOTL, Atlanta, October 2019

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• 100 Acre Residential Campus A not-for-profit university

• 4,500 Students (800 graduate) Learning Without Borders

• 10 Masters & 7 PhD programs
• 5 Schools & 1 Core Curriculum
• Business
• Humanities & Social Sciences
• Science & Engineering
• Law
• Education

• 13,000 Alum in 27 Chapters

• 50+ Student Societies
• 50+ Int’l Exchange Partners 18
“Human history becomes more and more a race between
education and catastrophe.”
H.G. Wells

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 Vice Chancellor

Provost

Strategic Centers without

Schools
Initiatives borders

Business & Society

Registrar
Business
Exec Development

Admissions &
Humanities &
Financial Aid Policy Studies
Social Science
Water
Advising Science &
Engineering Energy

Big Data
Learning Institute
Law
Chinese Studies
Continuing Educatio
Education n

National
Incubation

Internationalization

Program
Enhancement

Inclusivity &
Accessibility A Not-For-Profit-University
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 A not-for-profit university

Centers & Institutes

• Rausing Executive Development
• National Incubation
• Business & Society
• Policy Research
• Water Informatics
• Energy Institute
• Chinese Legal Studies
• Learning Institute
• Continuing Education
• Accessibility & Inclusivity
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LUMS: Recruitment Partners A not-for-profit university

• 940 Local and International Recruiting Partners

• 94% Placements within 9 Months of Graduation

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Accessible Education A not-for-profit university

• Merit not ability to pay

• Financial assistance for 1 in 3 students
(20% – 135% of tuition)
• PKR I billion in 2018-19

 1,200 students inducted and 600

graduated from across 122 cities
 40 International Scholarships
• HEC, Fulbright and Erasmus Mundus
• Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, NYU,
University of Paris and many more
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• 13,000 Alumni in 27 Chapters Alumni Hattaf Ayub
(BA 2019)
President, Student
• LUMS 567 Fulbright’s Alumni (largest in the world) Council, NOP Scholar,
Dera Ismail Khan
• In Fortune 500 companies (Shell, McKinsey, PepsiCo, Google, Facebook….)

Waqas Haider (BSc 2019)

Valedictorian, President of Amnesty
LUMS, Director of Health & Emergency Shanza Faiq (BA-LL.B 2016)
Learning Program and Founder of Topped CSS exam (among 11,887
Chiraagh, a social entrepreneurship candidates). Previously won Woman of
program giving back to his village in Pakistan Scholarship at the University of
Basti Dhup Sari, Multan Warwick to pursue an LL.M, as well as the
Fulbright Scholarship

School of Law

Furqan Ahmed Syed Dr. Karrar Hussain (BSc 2007

(MBA 1995) & MS 2008)
Vice President & GM PepsiCo. NOP scholar at LUMS, MPA-ID Harvard
Pakistan & Afghanistan. LUMS Kennedy School on a Fulbright
Board of Trustees Scholarship. PhD in Economics from
the University of Southern California .
School of Business Assistant Professor, Economics LUMS
School of Humanities & Social Sciences 24
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Thank you!
arshad@lums.edu.pk