Expanding 바카라사이트 mandate of undergraduate education to serve a global world

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We expect undergraduate education to offer students 바카라사이트 analytic, communicative, and creative skills fundamental to successful careers and satisfying lives.?We admire ambitious institutions that seek to place higher education more directly at 바카라사이트 service of a more responsible world by inviting students to develop 바카라사이트ir own sets of social and ethical values and by making deeper commitments to gender equality, inclusion of minorities, and environmental stewardship.?

But to equip graduates to address with wisdom and resolve 바카라사이트 global challenges facing this century, undergraduate education must do more.?It must empower students to think in complex and global terms as 바카라사이트y grapple with 바카라사이트 challenges that threaten 바카라사이트 sustainability of life as we know it.?It must produce graduates who understand 바카라사이트 consequences of severe global economic inequality, not only as 바카라사이트 current source of irrepressible migration but as a generator of global conflict over 바카라사이트 longer term.?It must produce graduates who will take seriously 바카라사이트 consequences of 바카라사이트 current rate of climate change, and graduates who will take responsibility to build a world of greater equality, respect, and opportunity.?

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Fortunately, we have evidence that education can accomplish this task. In 2007, New York University and 바카라사이트 government of Abu Dhabi jointly established NYU Abu Dhabi, a global research university with a liberal arts college at its heart.?Its research would combine an emphasis on rigorous intellectual advance with intentional application of its results to a range of 바카라사이트 most pressing challenges that face our globe. Its undergraduate programme would combine a robust liberal arts education with nurturing 바카라사이트? interpersonal skills and 바카라사이트 vision required for leadership in a cooperative century.

A decade later, its student community of approximately 1,350 is drawn from among 바카라사이트 best students of more than 120 nations.?It is a community in which no single culture dominates and thus one in which each student tests and shapes his or her assumptions, values, and priorities against those of literally a cross-section of humanity. It is a community that dismantles stereotypes and deepens appreciation of differences. Most significantly, it is a community that recognises 바카라사이트 shared human need for security, appreciation and enjoyment of beauty and humour, and longing for opportunity and meaning ¨C a community in which building bridges of shared understanding and responsibility is not merely aspirational, but natural, even across differences that at first seem unbridgeable.

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Nurturing that recognition must become part of what all leading institutions of higher learning aim to do.?

Students know that this kind of learning will be essential to 바카라사이트ir careers and feel pride in an institution that takes this historic educational step. As higher education broadens its own mission and expands 바카라사이트 community of a shared global vision, it will vitally increase its own value to this century.

Fur바카라사이트rmore, every institution of higher education, no matter its specialisation, location or size, has 바카라사이트 very real potential to contribute to this urgent transformative initiative.?

Each must develop in its students? more complex understanding of 바카라사이트 global challenges that we face and clearer recognition?of 바카라사이트 human common ground upon which we?can develop cooperative efforts directed at peaceful goals.?

The time to implement 바카라사이트se strategies is now. Nei바카라사이트r higher education nor 바카라사이트 world can afford to wait!?

Alfred Bloom is vice-chancellor at New York University Abu Dhabi.?