Students Plot Social Entrepreneurship at Clinton Initiative Seminar
February 24, 2009
About 1,000 college students from every state and some 60 countries designed efforts to tackle hunger, pollution, AIDS and human trafficking at last week’s second annual Clinton Global Initiative University, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Participants in the three-day meeting at the University of Texas in Austin were selected based on their submission of detailed “commitments to action” ranging in scope from global problems to more modest plans to plant sustainable gardens and record and sell indigenous music to benefit destitute villages in the developing world.
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