{"id":1719,"date":"2015-07-21T21:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2015-07-22T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T13:06:28","slug":"academia-and-post-2015-fit-for-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/2015\/07\/21\/academia-and-post-2015-fit-for-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Academia and Post 2015: Fit for Purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 21, Professor Martin Edwards spoke as part of a panel at the UN with speakers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/globalfoundationdd.org\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Global Foundation for Democracy and Development<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unadr.org.do\/index.php?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">UNA-DR<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/unsdsn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Development Solutions Network<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funglode.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FUNGLODE<\/a>. An overview of the presentations can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/globalfoundationdd.org\/fulltext.asp?t=a&amp;id=9104\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/files\/2015\/07\/side-event.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1721\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/files\/2015\/07\/side-event.jpg\" alt=\"side event\" width=\"620\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the role of academia in advancing the Post-2015 agenda, Professor Edwards foreshadowed some projects that he will be working on with students starting this fall. The presentation appears below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/bLYCn8dgBfY0PY\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 21, Professor Martin Edwards spoke as part of a panel at the UN with speakers from the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/2015\/07\/21\/academia-and-post-2015-fit-for-purpose\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academia and Post 2015: Fit for Purpose?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,15,84,2],"tags":[224,23,28,27,141],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-martin-edwards","category-programs","category-teaching","tag-academia","tag-civil-society","tag-post-2015","tag-sdgs","tag-students","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}