Institute News
Institute Adopts New Strategic Plan
May 28, 2008
Scholarship and Research
Under the new plan, the Institute will promote and support widespread
use of the archive in undergraduate courses at USC and among graduate
students, post-doctoral fellows, and visiting scholars. The Institute
will also invest in enhancing linkages between the Institute and the
rest of the University by supporting faculty research. Importantly, the
Institute will also collaborate with the Dean of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences to establish a world class academic center at the University.
Education
The Institute will improve its outreach to secondary school educators
in the United States through a new generation of innovative,web-based
educational tools and by promoting the use of these tools by teachers.
The Institute's international focus will also sharpen with a meticulous
prioritizing of the countries in which it works, and by concentrating
its efforts in those countries.
Access to the Archive
The Institute will provide broader access to the archive around the
world. The archive's user-interface will be completely redesigned, and
the Institute will promote access to the archive at an expanding number
of Internet 2 institutions in this country and overseas.
New Content
In the years ahead, the Institute will participate in projects to
collect and preserve memories of other genocides and violations of
human rights. This will not only fulfill a moral obligation to preserve
evidence of such events; it will also create a foundation for
distinctive research (by expanding the archive to include additional
testimonies) and distinguish the Institute as a world leader in the
documentation of genocide through its unique technologies and long
experience.
Preservation of Current Content
At the same time that the Institute undertakes these and other
initiatives, it will continue to preserve the testimonies in the
existing archive, beginning with an $8 million dollar preservation
effort commencing in July 2008.
"This is a significant moment for the Institute," said Douglas Greenberg, Institute Executive Director and Professor of History. "Our presence at USC has created new opportunities, and the 2008 strategic plan positions us to take advantage of those opportunities as a fully integrated part of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences."
