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>> In a way, I think, every generation has its own ambition.
I see the students of the future being impatient about problems
that they think they've inherited,
we're already seeing that.
They don't want a planet and a future, an economic future,
an educational future, an environmental future that seems
like it's limited and they don't want to think about their scope
and their capacity to be limited.
They want to build from aspiration.
So they're going to come in increasingly practical
in some ways, but also idealistic.
And I think that's exactly what you want.
The students of the future at Dartmouth are going to come
from all walks of life and all parts of the world.
They're going to need resources to go back out into that world
that are different than what we might have today.
They're going to need to make connections globally in a way
that we haven't had to do.
>> I don't think that there is one scene
of the future and that's by design.
I think that there is--
the student of the future is diverse.
That there's-- some of them with a wide range of experiences
in their background, they come from all sorts
of different places, they-- some of them are-- and then--
and all sorts of different interests too.
I think that Dartmouth is always, and will continue
to attract students that really have standards for themselves.
People who aren't just passive participants in the world,
they're people who want to out and find something
that they can do to help and then take it with both hands.
>> The rate of technology has changed, the opportunities
that many students are getting for Study Abroad Programs
and travel in their high school education,
I think those creates an entirely different dynamic
for students when they come to college.
And I think you're going to see maybe a heightened awareness
of opportunities that extend beyond their state,
their nation.
And also, I hope there's an eagerness to learn more.
>> If Dartmouth wants to be effective in training students
for the future, they need to be what I've heard described
as by someone from IBM as T-shaped people.
So they're deep in one area, so they have a depth in knowledge,
but they're also broad so they have a lot of other interests,
a lot of-- if not expertise, at least general knowledge
so that they can effectively collaborate
with people in other disciplines.
>> You know, one of the greatest things that I found working
at Dartmouth is that the students are really interested
in interdisciplinary work and so are the faculty.
So even now, people are in the film department
or computer science department,
often their interests span more than one thing.
And the students are this way as well, the students
who are attracted to come here maybe opera singers
on the football team who are majoring in physics.
And those are the kind of people who come here.
They're very well-rounded and eccentric kind of people.
And I say this in a good way, the people who are willing
to pursue their passion.
So, you have a lot of people with a lot
of different skill sets.
>> I think in the future, we're going to see students
who are able to engage with and try things
out that they've never thought that they could do before.
Dartmouth's always done this to a certain extent,
but it's going to be in new ways.
They're going to come here and they're going to have exposure
to the best resources possible, the best knowledge,
and the ability to put these resources
and knowledge together in new ways.
They're going to be doing things in their experience at Dartmouth
that people didn't know were possible.
They're going to be entrepreneurs, they're going
to be inventors in their four-year college experience.
>> One of the great things about being an academic is
that we are incredibly excited by what we do.
We wake up every morning and we just want to do it.
And I want that for my students.
I think that is an incredible gift to be able to wake up
and have something that you love and that you are good
and that you think you make the world a better place.
That's what I want for my students, I don't need for them
to be computer scientists, I don't need for them
to be mathematicians, I want to enable them
to explore during their four years here
so they can find the thing that they are passionate about,
the thing that will make them happy and productive.