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Goals for World Change
| What is our dedicated semester? |
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Fontbonne University has
introduced a unique
academic experience called
a dedicated semester.
This collaborative initiative
encourages the entire university
— students, faculty and
staff — to explore
a single theme each fall semester.
Learn more.
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The fall 2008 theme for Fontbonne University’s dedicated semester is “Goals for World Change.” World leaders agreed at the 2000 United
Nations Millennium Summit to set a number of measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. The summit established 2015 as the target date for achieving and implementing change.
The U.N. General Assembly’s resolution states that “As leaders we have a duty therefore to all the world’s people, especially the most vulnerable and, in particular, the children of the world to whom the future belongs.”
The essence of the U.N.’s resolution aligns closely with Fontbonne’s own mission to “educate students to think critically, act ethically, and assume responsibility as citizens and leaders.”
We intend to promote a community-wide awareness of these goals by addressing each of them during our fall semester. It is our hope that we can all participate in a collective responsibility to realize the betterment of humanity.
—joint statement from Stephenie Paine-Saunders and Margaret Gilleo
faculty co-chairs for the dedicated semester committee
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