Resources
Dickinson College Office of Global Education
Dickinson College, a participating institution in AAC&U’s
Shared Futures project, provides acclaimed study abroad
experiences for undergraduate students. Recognized by
the Institute of International Education for its high
rate of study abroad participation, Dickinson’s
Global Education program encourages students to integrate
their global learning experiences (in twenty-four participating
countries) with curricular and cocurricular activities
at home. For more information on Dickinson’s model,
visit the Office of Global Education Web site: www.dickinson.edu/global.
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights,
and the New War on the Poor, by Paul Farmer (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2005)
Paul Farmer’s analysis of the role “structural
violence” plays in human suffering deeply influences
the mission of the Shared Futures project. Through a
series of examples drawn from his experiences as a medical
doctor, Farmer argues that human suffering results not
from individual abuses, but from interrelated systems
that produce and perpetuate human rights violations.
Farmers sees these violations as “symptoms of
deeper pathologies of power... linked intimately to
the social conditions that so often determine who will
suffer abuse and who will be shielded from harm.”
He argues that nation-states must take responsibility
for their roles in these systems (of commerce, policy,
and scholarship).
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability
in Higher Education (AASHE)
AASHE, a membership-based organization, “promote[s]
sustainability in all sectors of higher education—from
governance and operations to curriculum and outreach—through
education, communication, research, and professional
development.” The association’s Web site
provides access to a number of resources for sustainability,
several of which are available to the general public.
These include newsletter archives, assessment tools,
and a publications bibliography. The Web site also describes
AASHE’s multiple sustainability programs, such
as the Campus Sustainability Rating System Project.
For more information and to access these resources,
visit www.aashe.org.
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