The Institute has a simple and straightforward organization:
(1) Board of Trustees, (2) Executive Officers Committee, and
(3) Faculty of Fellows.
Faculty members may be visitors or permanent members of the Institute community, affiliated with other
institutions such as colleges, universities, non-profit institutes, or corporations, and they may be resident
or present remotely through modern telecommunications.
All Institute faculty have independence and latitude in defining their programs of research that they conduct
under the auspices of and within the support matrix of the Institute. As an intellectual community, the Institute
attaches paramount importance and value to the balance between individual and group activities; communications
and collaborations are highly encouraged.
The Institute is not a degree-granting institution nor does it intend to be such.
LEAPS,
the Laboratory for Emergent Adaptive Processes and Systems, as well as any other
programme or project within the Institute, is not intended to dominate, centralize, or control any other facets of
activity within the Institute but rather to provide seminal and symbiotic guidance, inspiration, and mentorship.
The Governance Charter is available for review and constitutes the formal documentation for the Institute
as an academic and legal body, including its Articles and By-Laws.
Presently (Autumn, 2011) the Institute is in negotiations for establishing an informal but close and long-term association
with a few established, recognized colleges and universities. There is great and sincere hope for a rapid establishment of
the LEAPS "kernel" in close affiliation with one university which embodies the principles of LEAPS and the Institute, and
which has directly influenced the thinking of the founders and several collaborators.
