Over the course of LSI’s 35 years of serving our diverse clientele, the institute has operated a budget in excess of one quarter of one billion dollars. Accordingly, LSI has a great deal of experience in contract management, grant management, and has been very successful in financing research by winning highly competititve grant awards.

Throughout its history, LSI has enjoyed a close working relationship with the Florida State University Department of Educational Research. Specifically, the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) program and LSI have collaborated on many projects. This relationship has benefited both organizations, and ISD and LSI have grown in reputation to their current stature as internationally recognized leaders in their own right. To a large part, that reputation was built on the individual and collective talents of the people whom Dr. Robert Morgan recruited to FSU and those who subsequently gravitated toward the vibrant activity of the center. LSI has provided support for eminent scholars such as Robert Gagné, Robert Branson, Roger Kaufman, Leslie Briggs, John Mayo, Walter Dick, and many others.

We believe this work has contributed to Florida State University’s growth as a research institution. The reputation earned through high quality research, timely publications, leadership in national professional organizations, and authorship of major textbooks in the field of ISD has likewise been a major contribution to the university Further, through the outstanding work of the Learning Systems Institute, Florida States University has become known throughout the world. In Korea, FSU has become a lodestone for advanced graduate study as hundreds of highly qualified foreign students have earned degrees at FSU over the last 35 years. The ongoing and continuous influx of international students has positively benefited FSU’s culture and has helped the university rapidly become a world-class institution. International work and visibility benefits a university in many ways.

Not only does it help attract highly qualified students, but it also affords opportunities for faculty to develop international collaborative ventures. Invariably, overseas assignments broaden faculties’ perspectives, renew enthusiasm, and result in better teaching and research at the home campus. Foreign students who study here associate, study, and live with students from Florida and give them a better understanding of other cultures and perspectives. These experiences are invaluable in this time of increasing globalization.