ooiCTRLD Organization > Academic Unit and "Think Tanks"
                                  Table of Content for the ooiCTRLD Organization Page (Click on a topic to link to it)
 
 Organization Information and Donors  Membership and Benefits  Past Service Presidents
 Organization Background  Academic Unit and "Think Tanks"  Service Region Directors
 Organization Mission Statement  Organization's Services  Organizational Chart
 Purpose of the Organization  Service Regions  

    
ooi CONSORTIUM for TEACHING, RESEARCH, LEARNING and DEVELOPMENT (ooiCTRLD)
ACADEMIC UNIT and "THINK TANKS"

 

ACADEMIC UNIT

The academic unit of the organization is called ooi Academy. The purpose of the unit is to nurture intellectual exchange and collaborations among members of the ooi Academy. Such intellectual exchange and collaborations may lead to development of experts in various fields for the organization. A group of members of the organization who share common interest and expertise could form a "think tank" devoted to solving the world's problems through sponsored research, consulting and other activities.
 

"THINK TANKS"

The "think tanks" of the organization are various special interest groups of member of the ooi Academy who have formally established units in the Development division of the organization, with the purpose of collaborating their special interest in the narrow area of their expertise in a mentoring environment, to acquire resources, mainly through sponsored grant writing, for investigating research problems, disseminating research results and developing interventions for the identified problems for the benefit of humankind.
 

 

2007 Update