USF Magazine Winter 2012

Volume 54 | Number 4

Spotlight

World

Managing Growth

| USF News

Each year, 67 million new urban dwellers are added to the world's population — bringing unprecedented challenges in urban resource management.

Now, under a new agreement signed in September, USF's Patel School of Global Sustainability has become the first North American university in a collaborative research and strategy partnership created to respond to the effects of rapid urbanization.

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Global Citizenship

| USF News

There's global education as an idea. Then there's global education in practice — students gaining knowledge and experiences that prepare them to be global citizens, and faculty bringing a global perspective to every course offering.

At USF's first Global Citizenship Conference in August, participants shared information and experiences with champions of global education, and heard from USF students preparing to be global citizens.

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