This June, delegates from institutions of higher education around the world gathered at Allegheny College for the Fifth World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2022) to focus on educating the sustainability leaders of the future and on how to use community-engaged learning to train students to tackle the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). The 17 UN SDGs provide a global framework to address the climate and equity crisis by exploring not only what needs to happen to make change but also how individuals, communities, countries, and public and private-sector institutions can contribute.
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Creating an Academic Culture of Working to Live
I’m often asked how I succeed at managing work-life balance—or as I call it, “life-work balance”— and it stems from my childhood. My parents both worked as educators, and