Zayed University (ZU) embarked on a large-scale effort to redesign the university as an exemplar interdisciplinary institution of higher education. UDI’s engagement supported ZU with designing the future-state university including: vision and core values, institutional structure, KPIs, external engagement model, building capacity for translational and interdisciplinary research and data-driven decision making.

In this lecture, Daniel Markovits explored how over the course of the past half-century, the United States invented a new, unprecedented, and extreme form of economic hierarchy, which might have been called meritocratic inequality - not because it was justified, but because it was tied to winning at competitions in school and at work.