Mission Statement
The Strauss Center is a non-partisan research center at The University of Texas at Austin dedicated to promoting policy-relevant scholarship on the problems and opportunities created by our increasingly globalized and interconnected world. By generating and disseminating rigorous research we seek to bridge the gap between The University of Texas and the broader national and international debate over global issues. Our goal is to help policymakers, business and civic leaders, journalists, students, and the public understand and respond to the many challenges facing the United States and rest of the world. In pursuing this mission, the Center works to emulate the core values Ambassador Robert Strauss demonstrated during his long and distinguished career: civility, innovation, and leadership. We seek to encourage broad and respectful debate; find practical solutions to pressing global problems; and prepare faculty and students to become leaders in an increasingly complex global environment.
The Center advances its goal of enriching scholarly and public understanding of global challenges and opportunities by:
- Bringing, both on its own and in collaboration with other units at The University of Texas, top scholars and practitioners of global affairs to campus to teach and research;
- Sponsoring research on pressing global problems that generates concrete policy recommendations that the public can embrace and policymakers can enact;
- Bridging the disciplinary divides at The University of Texas by bringing expertise from a range of academic specialties to bear on pressing global issues;
- Engaging government, business, and non-profit organizations in on-going conversations with The University of Texas community about the challenges facing the United States and the world and the steps needed to promote peace and prosperity;
- Convening meetings, conferences, lectures, and other events that bring government officials, national opinion leaders, global figures, and prominent thinkers to campus to debate and discuss the major global issues of our time;
- Developing opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to conduct research on global problems and to generate their own actionable policy recommendations.
The Center actively disseminates its work to policymakers, journalists, scholars, students, and other interested citizens in the United States and abroad. It does so in the books, articles, and op-eds written by its fellows; through public events and television, radio, and newspaper interviews; and with written, visual, and audio presentations on the Strauss Center website.
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