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Reimagining the future for prosperity across the life course
The nation’s evolving human-capital needs will oblige our society to support longer working lives, multiple career transitions, and continual renewal of skills. Yet the basic institutional architectures of schooling, work and family that we inherit from the twentieth century remain organized on the notion that education and learning trail off with the end of childhood. This is a significant disservice to the quality of individual lives and the nation’s economic and civic vitality.
This Futures Project will develop a framework for building education and learning opportunities for enabling people to navigate change and prosper throughout their adult lives. A joint venture of Stanford’s Center on Longevity and Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences, the Project assembles a plurality of talent from academia, venture capital, philanthropy and the civil sector to imagine a new ecology for developing human potential across century-long lives. More
2024-2025 FUTURES FELLOWS
Fellows are appointed through Stanford’s Center on Longevity, and convened to provide reciprocal peer review for a wide range of projects.
Tara Behrend
John Richard Butler II Professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations
Michigan State University
Bio
Rachel Lipson
Co-founder, Harvard Project on Workforce;
Co-editor, America’s Hidden Economic Engines
Bio
Gloria Mwase
Senior Vice President, Research, Impact, Learning, and Development
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning; Project Co-Lead
Bio
Phyllis Stewart Pires
Associate Vice President, Employee Support Programs and Services, University Human Resources, Stanford University
Bio
Rick Settersten
University Distinguished Professor of Life Course & Human Development
Oregon State University
Bio
Anne Trumbore
Chief Digital Learning Officer
Sands Institute for Lifelong Learning, UVA Darden School of Business; Project Co-Lead
Bio
TIMETABLE
Monday 23 September: First Cohort assembly (via Zoom 9 – 10 AM Pacific time)
October 24-25, 2024: Residency 1 @ Stanford
November 21, 2024: Vision document released to the general public
January 16-17, 2025: Residency 2 @ Stanford
May 1-2 2025: Residency 3 @ US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Washington, DC
September 16, 2025: Launch of Building a Learning Society: Design Principles for Human-Capital Investment, 2025-2035
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CONTACT
Mitchell Stevens, Convener, [email protected]
Staff
Marie Conley-Smith, Director of Programs, SCL – [email protected]
Michelle Cruz, Social Science Research Professional, SCL – [email protected]
David Pagano, Director of Communications, SCL – [email protected]