Creating Better Futures: Higher Education and Sustainable Development Leadership
Debra Rowe, President of the U.S. Partnership for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and Senior Fellow at the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future discusses the importance of integrating "sustainability literacy" into curricula throughout the disciplines, student life, operations, and community partnerships.
(Posted on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:33:34 EST)

Humanizing and Righting Global Education
Obioma Nnaemeka, Professor of French, Women's Studies, and African/African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) discusses the importance of looking at globalization and its consequences "from below" and the inherent value of the humanities to present the human face of globalization.
(Posted on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:48:34 EST)

Religion, Globalization, and Democracy: Is Fundamentalism an Obstacle to Democracy? A Cause of Terrorism? Or a Reaction to the Secular Empire of McWorld?
Benjamin Barber, the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and a principal of the Democracy Collaborative, analyzes the historical tensions between democracy and religion and argues that democracy is the process through which complicated and divisive religious differences can be managed peaceably.
(Posted on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:50:22 EST)