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Direct linkSharon Stein – About Campus, 2024
Many students have expressed that they feel highly distressed by the state of the world they are inheriting. Extreme weather and wildfires around the globe, and increasingly sobering assessments about projected futures by researchers, activists, and global leaders have led to a growing consensus that the world is at a turning point when it comes…
Descriptors: Climate, College Students, Universities, Environmental Education
Kettler, Lauren Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2018
When major transnational events occur, such as the 2015 economic crisis within Greece, the 2016 violent conflicts within Turkey, and the creation of political policies such as the 2017 President Trump Executive Orders on visa and immigration, the effects ripple throughout the field of international higher education. How higher education…
Descriptors: Universities, Current Events, World Problems, Educational Strategies
Bell, David E. – 1977
There are four central issues in mobilizing the resources of American universities to contribute more effectively to alleviating world hunger and malnutrition: (1) To what extent should universities' motivation be original, and to what extent related to government support?; (2) What needs to be done, beyond additional food production?; (3) What…
Descriptors: College Role, Developing Nations, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Download full textGilbert, Alfred, Ed.; Cox, Jim, Ed. – 1975
The results of a 1975 seminar designed to examine the potential of a United Nations University are summarized. Considering that the university is still in the early stages of policy planning, the seminar was one means of demonstrating that there are people and organizations who support the university. Topics for discussions included: (1) What Is…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Development, Educational Planning, Futures (of Society)
Academy of World Studies, San Francisco, CA. – 1974
The results of a 1974 colloquium designed to discuss the preliminary feasibility of a United Nations University are provided. Twenty-five representatives from San Francisco Bay area institutions of higher learning met to discuss general programs and policies, bay area regional cooperation and collaboration, communications, and educator role. The…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Educational Development
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1977
Focusing on ways of extending UNESCO's 1974 recommendation concerning international education to the university level, educators from India, Mexico, Sweden, Nigeria, and the United States convened in Paris, August 22-26, 1977. The 1974 recommendation reaffirmed the responsibility of UNESCO nations to pursue educational opportunity, and advancement…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Continuation Education, Cooperation, Curriculum Development
