A country with over 4 million internally displaced people (IDPs), a possible pending free trade agreement with the United States, and one of the most bio-diverse and resource rich nations on the planet, Colombia is both a gem of natural beauty and enigma of complex social problems.
An upcoming event at AU this Friday the 8th at 2pm in the Battelle Atrium, sponsored by AU’s PorColombia club, AWOL, and CASJ discusses just this subject, along with the present opportunities and challenges for the United States and Colombia.
Not everyone is in agreement whether the free trade agreement will benefit Colombia.
height="199" />A week of hastily organized publicity and overwhelming student activism culminated today in a sit-in to change an AU administrator's decision on a sexual assault prevention grant.
AU’s Office of Campus Life said just that by blocking a campus initiative to apply for a federal grant to fund sexual violence prevention. The Department of Justice each year administers the “Grant to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking on Campus,” which doles out $300,000 over three years to fund resources for survivors and tools for address the problem of sexual assault.
If you’re an entrepreneurship wonk who’s always wanted to change the world with your big business idea, consider Shift Series: a new social business initiative sponsored by Compass Partners.
Shift Series is a new national social entrepreneurship conference designed to promote discussion about new business approaches to social problems.
In Wisconsin, thousands have converged on the Madison statehouse in protest of a proposed bill that would revoke the collective bargaining rights of most state employees.
Bad news, readers: we bungled some numbers in our Winter 2011 cover story on diversity in AU Student Government.
Because AU’s freshman class is 62 percent white according to the College Board, the story stated that the other 38 percent are people of color.
