(1795) an agreement between Native American confederation leaders and the U.S. government that gave the United States Indian lands in the Northwest Territory and guaranteed that U.S. citizens could safely travel through the region Marbury v. Madison ...
Reason is named professor of belles-lettres, Greek, Latin and French at New York Central College in McGrawville, New York. He appears to be the first African American to teach at a mixed race institution of higher education in the U.S. 1850: Lucy Ann Stanton, a Black woman, receives a...
He also toured South Africa, invited by the Center for Higher Education Transformation, engaging in debates and conversations on development policies with academics, high ranking government officials, labor, and business leaders. The 2000–09 research survey of the Social Sciences Citation Index ranks ...
China is creating their version of the Ivy League, by singling out nine of its top universities. Yale president Richard Levin said: “This expansion in capacity is without precedent. China has built the largest higher-education sector in the world in merely a decade’s time. In fact, the i...
Current Leaders António Guterres Position Secretary-General Introduction António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres took office as Secretary-General of the United Nations on 1 Jan. 2017. Having served as Portugal’s prime minister from 1995–2002, his UN appointment marked the first time that the position...
Greg is chair of the Connected Places Catapult (CPC), the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport and place-leadership, and Chair of the UK Cities Climate Investment Commission (UKCCIC) that convenes city leaders and financiers to drive investment in a just urban transition. He is ...
Other leaders attending the forum agreed that globalization is an irreversible trend of the times and countries need to work together to address various problems and challenges facing humanity. They said that China has become an important force in safeguarding multilateralism, international rules and fre...
leaders who used education’s vast sums of public money for purposes of patronage and simple corruption. [In contrast, …] performance-based reform is the new normal, even in nations such as Mexico and India where patronage and corruption are rampant, and the school systems remain very poorly...
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amity and good faith. We will earnestly implement all the outcomes of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), the meeting between leaders of China and Pacific island countries, the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum and the Forum of China and the Community of Lat...