How can higher education empower students as agents of the social transformations that our societies need so urgently? Linn Friedrichs connects John Dewey's education theory, current research on globalization, and inclusive curriculum design approaches to propose a new educational model for our age of complexity, crisis, and innovation. Drawing lessons from NYU's efforts to globalize its research, pedagogy, and social impact, she presents building blocks for a new curricular core that is structured around the key challenges of our time and the competencies of 'complexity resilience'. It becomes the essential foundation for action-oriented partnerships across cultural, disciplinary, generational, and institutional boundaries.

Linn Friedrichs, born in 1985, is assistant director for student life and community learning and a faculty member at New York University, Berlin. She completed her doctorate at the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on global curriculum development, inclusive pedagogy, the role of the university in the 21st century, and new approaches to an activist academic practice.