At the MLK Day vigil on Monday, Tim King, a pioneer of education reform and the founder of Urban Prep Academies, spoke about his organization’s commitment to develop its students’ intellect and character. Urban Prep runs a network of public charter schools in Chicago for young, underserved, black men to counter the huge disparities they face in academic success and job opportunity. Tim King drew on this principle of balance, of providing knowledge and building the ethic to use it, ...

GES. Global Engagement Summit. It’s a term that I had often heard thrown around campus but not something that I had ever really understood. I knew that a bunch of my friends were always busy for a week during spring quarter when students from all over the world came to Northwestern for some sort of conference. I knew that it had something to do with discussing projects. And I knew that the people in it worked really hard and seemed ...

This week Northwestern's Conference on Human Rights kick off with an opening keynote speech by Rose Mapendo, "a global activist for peace and reconciliation, The 2009 United Nations Humanitarian of the Year, CNN Hero and Volvo for Life Award Recipient."  To read more of her incredibly story visit http://mapendonewhorizons.org/node/34 The conference is themed Human Rights in Transit: Issues of Forced Migration and also includes a closing keynote speech, "Cessation: Uganda Style" by Dr. Barbara Harrell-Bond of Oxford University. According to the Cultural Orientation Resource ...

GES is proud to announce a Fast Track Partnership with Echoing Green. As a Fast Track Partner, GES now has the opportunity to name 1-2 promising social entrepreneurs from the GES community to proceed directly to the second round of the Echoing Green Fellowship application. Since 1987, Echoing Green has provided seed funding and support to nearly 500 social entrepreneurs – including the founders of Teach For America, City Year, College Summit, SKS Microfinance, and Genocide Intervention Network. In Spring 2011 ...

Anything is Possible from The Canary Collective on Vimeo. There are no words to describe how thrilled we are: Brian Bordainick will be the opening keynote to GES. He will speak at the opening banquet, in front of GES staff, delegates and everyone who has collaborated with the realization of the Summit, including Northwestern’s President Morton Schapiro. Why Brian? The opening keynote should give delegates a taste of what GES is about, what they should expect from the Summit and above all, it ...

There's still time to apply! International Delegates Application Deadline: DECEMBER 15, 2009 American Delegates Application Deadline: DECEMBER 30, 2009

We need your help! The GES Outcomes Team recently brainstormed over 80 different organizations that we’re interested in working with this year and did extensive research on all of them to determine which ones would be a perfect fit for GES. It was exciting and inspiring to see the awesome work that other organizations are doing in the field of international development. I can’t wait to start working with some of them! At the end of the meeting we decided it ...

The first observance of this holiday was in 1988. It is dedicates to raising awareness of HIV and AIDS and it is recognized by holding memorials to honor people who have died from this infection. It is also common for government and health officials to give speeches or forums. To recognize today, Former-president and creator of William J. Clinton Foundation, Bill Clinton spoke in a panel discussion hosted by the foundation and the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment, ...

Please join us on Friday, November 20, 8pm at the Portage Theatre for the Chicago Premiere of 'Rebuilding Hope' a documentary about the Sudanese 'Lost Boys' and their quest to find surviving family-members and rediscover and contribute to their homeland; it also sheds light on what the future holds for South Sudan in its precarious struggle for peace, development and stability. GES's Sarah Freeman, a sophomore at Northwestern University and Co-Chair of the Media and Marketing team for the Summit, worked as ...

Global Engagement Summit is now accepting International Delegates Applications until December 15, 2009 and American Delegate Applicants until December 30, 2009. APPLY TODAY If you are an international citizen and are currently enrolled in, recently (within 1 year) graduated from, or will soon (within 1 year) be enrolled in an international university, please apply to be an International Delegate. Contact international@theges.org or american@theges.org with any questions.