A New Way for Students and Colleges to Bring About Global Change

By WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON

Over the course of history, students and universities have played important, often transformative roles in guiding us toward a healthier, more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous global community. Today they face unprecedented global challenges relating to climate change, extreme poverty, malnutrition and disease, and equitable treatment of all people in our world.

Propelled by a growing awareness of those issues and aided by new social-networking tools and unconventional media,