Prospective college students may tour dozens of campuses in their application process. After touring school after school, each one’s buildings, quads, dining halls, libraries, dorms — they all start to blend together.
We’ve all been there: you sign into your Facebook account and see a dozen new invites to groups, events and associations that you have never heard of from people you don’t talk to.
Inspired by the recent uprisings in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, Farida Nabourema, a junior in SIS, decided to take action for the people in her home country of Togo.
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.
