Student Programs
Our story began in the heat of the Freedom Summer of 1964, when three young men -- Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner -- traveled to the South to register African-Americans to vote. On their first day there, the three men were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. From this tragedy, Andrew Goodman Foundation was born.
The organization was created in 1966 by Robert '35 (Eng '39) and Carolyn Goodman '36, to carry on the spirit and the purpose of their son Andrew's life. The Andrew Goodman Foundation now exists on dozens of campuses across the nation. Our work today harnesses the legacy of the courageous leaders of the civil rights movement.
The Global Citizenship and Sustainability program is a partnership between the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement and the Department of Natural Resources. It is an unique program that combines both academic discipline and co-curricular area to better partner with the global community. The Program fosters cross-cultural learning while building skills in community-based research. It works in partnership with the Institute of Social Informatics and Technological Innovations at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) and Penan village leaders. The student project will build on information and communication technologies (ICTs) for rural and indigenous peoples' holistic views of community and environment, are a major resource for adapting to climate change, but these have not been used consistently in existing adaptation efforts in Malaysian Borneo. Integrating such forms of knowledge with existing practices increases the effectiveness of adaptation. With collective knowledge of the land, sky, and sea, idigenous communities are observers and interpreters of changes in the environment and knowledgeable about adaptations for the future. Moreover, indigenous knowledge provides a crucial foundation for community-based adaptation and mitigation actions that sustain resilience of social-ecological systems at the interconnected local, regional and global scales.
For more information, visit: http://blogs.cornell.edu/globalcitizenshipandsustainability/