Sai University, Chennai, India.
Please find the course description, students, and posters of the various courses that I have developed and taught at Sai University. As of January 2025, there have been 130 sessions featuring with 150 lecturers.
My friend and colleague, Jamshed Bharucha, Founding Vice Chancellor & University Professor of Sai University, expertly highlights issues of higher education in India in his latest article from the journal Daedalus called “India’s Realignment of Higher Education.”
Not only does he elucidate these issues from an educator’s lens, but he also speaks to how new universities are emerging with one such case example, namely SaiU, being one important solution. Sai University is the first institution in India to integrate typically siloed programs in arts and sciences, technology, and law into an ecosystem whose approach is much like that of systems-level thinking at the undergraduate level.
I entered the teaching ranks of SaiU as Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Global Affairs, but also as an Ambassador for SaiU's vision of interdisciplinarity , and an adviser for campus intellectual life, a role I held at Tufts University from 1985 onwards. The Institute I directed was understood during SaiU's Vice-Chancellor, Jamshed Bharucha's decade as Tufts University Provost, as the University's "Cross-School Interdisciplinary Signature Program”, known for its innovations.
Zeitgeist is one example of such an outcome at SaiU, reifying the vision that SaiU be a leader in interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity. Many of the essays chosen for Zeitgeist, written on international relations themes, were written by my students who are computer and data science majors.
GLOBAL CHALLENGES; Redefining Security; FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE; Power and Memory; the middle east and north african crises; confronting and resolving complex global security challenges
Many of them are my alumni, who have gone to accomplish great things in their lives and careers, as I can already forecast for some of my wonderful SaiU students.