WUN Illinois Development Grant Winners Announced

The Division of International Programs and Studies (IPS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Worldwide Universities Network are pleased to announce the 2008 Illinois – WUN International Development Grant Program winners.
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WUN Illinois Website Wins American Graphic Design Award

The University of Illinois is proud to announce that the WUN Illinois website has won a 2008 American Graphic Design Award. Over 10,000 applications were received this year among the diverse design catagories, making this award a very prestigious honor.
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WUN’s Leading Role Recognized with NCCI Leveraging Excellence Award

Universities are universal and increasingly international, but they are not yet ‘global’. In a rapidly globalising world, in which the central role of universities in the knowledge economy and in civil society is articulated more strongly and more widely than ever, there is no clear sense of what it takes or what it means to be a global university. The NCCI Award recognised WUN’s novel approach to achieving structured engagements over 4 continents to leverage excellence and create new value, both financial and operational.
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Higher Education Enterprise Conference Unites WUN Universities in Leeds England

A hundred scholars and industry representatives gathered to identify and explore issues surrounding the development of ‘global entrepreneurs.’ at The Worldwide Universities Network International Entrepreneurship Conference held at the University of Leeds from 10th-11th December 2007 A diverse array of presentations and parallel sessions highlighted the need to foster entrepreneurship and equip individuals and organisations with the skills necessary to work effectively across geographical, political and economic boundaries in an international dialogue that uniquely followed on from, and was integrated with, the preceding meeting in October 2007 at the first WUN Chicago Entrepreneurship conference.
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Professor Wu Qing – Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship

Women & Gender in Global Perspectives, the Academy and the Worldwide Universities Network, were proud to welcome honorary speaker, Professor Wu Qing to campus. Professor Wu Qing’s dedication to social activism has won her world acclaim and in 2001 the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service, considered the “Asian Nobel Prize.” She is the first woman to receive this honor, and said of herself “I am a verb…and not just any verb, an action verb. I think talking is one thing, but getting out there and doing is really living. It is important to have a vision bigger than yourself, then one can expand on it to act globally.”
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International WUN Chicago Entrepreneurship Conference Unites Worldwide Universities

In a unique event, focused on an area of rapidly developing importance, the recent WUN Chicago Entrepreneurship Conference brought together over 130 top scholars from around the world to establish new research paradigms and shape education for the ever changing world of global entrepreneurship. The Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the Worldwide Universities Network hosted this first conference in a series of entrepreneurial workshops with subsequent events already planned in Leeds and Zhejiang.
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