Let’s Make Some Noise!: Higher Education and the Post- 2015 Development Agenda

In preparation for the International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development, Nagoya 9 November 2014, and the UNESCO World Conference on ESD, Nagoya, Japan, 10-12 November 2014, IAU prepared a special issue of IAU Horizons on The role of higher education in the post 2015 Development Agenda. Download Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.
Let’s Make Some Noise!: Higher Education and the Post- 2015 Development Agenda - by Budd L Hall
As I write this article, I am not sure whether or not the words ‘higher education’ will appear in the formulation of the post-2015 UN development goals. But before getting further into that discussion, perhaps a word for IAU Members and readers about what the Millennium Development Goals ( www.un.org/ millenniumgoals/ ) were and why those of us in higher education should pay attention to them.
As the new Millennium was approaching in the late 1990s, the crossing over of a 2000-year-old time threshold stimulated leaders, development workers and politicians and ordinary people to think back about what we as human beings had created over 2000 years. But it also stimulated thinking about the future about what might be collective goals for the future. More in Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.