Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Global Perspectives
The mission of the Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Global Perspectives is to sharpen UCF's international focus. The office helps advance UCF's goal of providing international emphasis to curricula and research. In addition, it works to expand the university's efforts to enlarge Central Florida's awareness and understanding of the interconnectedness of the global community.UCF's Goals
Goal 1: Offer the best undergraduate education available in Florida.Goal 2: Achieve international prominence in key programs of graduate study and research.
Goal 3: Provide international focus to our curricula and research programs.
Goal 4: Become more inclusive and diverse.
Goal 5: Be America's leading partnership university.
Next Event
2/02/12
Tina Rosenberg
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and author of Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World and The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Date February 2, 2012, 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.Location UCF Student Union, Garden Key Room
Access Open Forum
Topic How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World
Sponsors UCF Global Perspectives Office, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, Sibille H. Pritchard Global Peace Fellowship program, UCF Global Peace and Security Studies Program, UCF Nicholson School of Communication, UCF LIFE, UCF Book Festival 2012 in association with the Morgridge International Reading Center, UCF Political Science Department, UCF International Services Center and the Global Connections Foundation
More Information Classroom discussions and community meetings; a feature of the 2011-2012 university-wide themes “People Power, Politics and Global Change” and “Covering Global Crises from the Frontlines”
