{"id":24783,"date":"2022-12-07T15:20:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kwu.edu\/?p=24783"},"modified":"2023-06-05T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:03:46","slug":"kansas-wesleyan-attains-membership-in-united-nations-academic-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kwu.edu\/about\/news\/kansas-wesleyan-attains-membership-in-united-nations-academic-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Wesleyan Attains Membership in United Nations Academic Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block rtf align style-default align-default position-right bg-color-default\">\n\t<div class=\"block-wrap\">\n\t\t<div class=\"rtf-content cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Kansas Wesleyan University is now a member of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), a group of nearly 1,500 institutions in 147 countries working to promote peace, human rights and sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important part of the work surrounding our Community Resilience Hub,\u201d said Dr. Matt Thompson, KWU president. \u201cThe vision surrounding the hub is for individuals and groups to engage urgent social issues through education, action and advocacy, and in the process, to nurture local and global resilience. The UNAI is accepted worldwide as a group of institutions with similar goals, those who aspire to better the world around them. Kansas Wesleyan is proud to be accepted into this group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every member organization is required to promote and foster UNAI\u2019s 10 guiding principles, and must involve faculty, staff and students in at least one activity each year that actively addresses at least one. 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