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[asiasociety]

Creating a 25,000 foot 'Vertical University' in Nepal

Activist, lawyer, and rural-development worker Rajeev Goyal discusses his innovative plan to conserve Nepal's biodiversity.

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[eugenelang-blog]

Debating for Democracy National Conference: March 21-22

The D4D National Conference is sponsored by Project Pericles – a consortium of 29 colleges and universities committed to including social responsibility and participatory citizenship as essential elements of their educational programs.

  Rajeev Goyal, author of The Springs of Namje: A Ten-Year Journey from the Villages of Nepal to the Halls of Congress and director of Push for Peace Corps, will deliver the keynote address.

  The National Conference also features a Legislative Hearing in which teams of students from different Periclean colleges and universities compete for $5,000 in prize money that they can use to develop advocacy and educational campaigns around their issues. Teams will present their ideas for addressing some of the most important public policy issues facing the United States to a panel of former government officials: U.S. Representative Thomas Downey; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Constance Berry Newman; Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland Kurt L. Schmoke; and U.S. Senator Harris L. Wofford.

  All participating students wrote and sent letters to their elected officials on topics including Assault Weapons Ban, Environmental Issues, Immigration Reform, and the Violence Against Women Act. Students use lessons from the conference to further their advocacy work.   

  The conference will be held on March 21-22 at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and is made possible through the generous support of the Eugene M. Lang Foundation.