GZU Participated in the UN Academic Impact Program

Invited by the Academic Impact Program of the UN Department of Public Information, our university officially joined in this program in December 2010. Academic Impact is a global initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in actively supporting ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, literacy, sustainability and conflict resolution. The formal launch of Academic Impact took place at a two-day conference in New York City, November 18-19, 2010.

So far nearly 600 institutions of higher education worldwide have joined in this program, of which 38 colleges and universities in China are also its members.

Academic Impact is informed by a commitment to support and advance ten basic principles:

1. A commitment to the principles inherent in the United Nations Charter as values that education seeks to promote and help fulfill;

2. A commitment to human rights, among them freedom of inquiry, opinion, and speech;

3. A commitment to educational opportunity for all people regardless of gender, race, religion or ethnicity;

4. A commitment to the opportunity for every interested individual to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for the pursuit of higher education;

5. A commitment to building capacity in higher education systems across the world;

6. A commitment to encouraging global citizenship through education;

7. A commitment to advancing peace and conflict resolution through education;

8. A commitment to addressing issues of poverty through education;

9. A commitment to promoting sustainability through education;

10. A commitment to promoting inter-cultural dialogue and understanding, and the forgetting of intolerance, through education.

Academic Impact website: http://academicimpact.org/index.php