Policy @ Mines

I attended a seminar to focussed around what role CSM should have in Public Policy. Below is more specific info on what I attened. This is an excerpt from a white paper written by Rod Eggert and Laura Pang for the seminar that was to guide the discussion. This is important to me and I look forward to playing an active role in it as it develops.
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Broad Vision
Mission. The mission would be threefold:
1. To bring greater visibility to CSM’s expertise in discussions of public policy in
CSM’s focus areas, drawing on technical and non-technical disciplines and
covering both domestic and international issues.
2. To increase CSM’s intellectual capital and expertise as they relate to all aspects of
public policy and analysis in CSM’s focus areas.
3. To engender greater inter- and cross-disciplinary collaboration in policy-related
issues across the campus with a special view to integrating and synthesizing
knowledge acquisition, generation, and dissemination from engineering, applied
sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
Role. CSM would strive to be an “honest broker” that would help frame discussions and
debates about energy policy, possibly in a “think tank” format. Specifically, CSM would
bring together interested parties from academia, government, industry, the media, and
non-governmental organizations.
Audiences. The target audience for Item 1 would be public policy makers at local,
regional, national, and international levels. The target audience for Items 2 and 3 would
be the CSM community of learners.
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Possible Activities and Functions
• Host special events: for example, an annual policy conference on energy issues; a
guest lecture series
• Engage in outreach: publish a journal; arrange press interviews; place CSM faculty as
featured speakers elsewhere
• Host experts: visiting researchers/scholars
• Promote research: funded and unfunded
• Enhance existing programs: including Engineering and Technology Management,
International Political Economy of Resources, McBride Honors Program in Public
Affairs, Mineral Economics
• Establish a chaired position(s)
• Fund fellowships for graduate students; new certificate and degree programs
• Recruit a well-known “public intellectual” to spearhead the effort

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