Universities have duty to collaborate on global challenges
Over the past 16 months, higher education has been tested by a once-in-a-century global health pandemic which has brought access and mobility challenges that have required us to find global solutions. But COVID-19 has only added to a long list of severely disruptive global challenges, like climate change, social inequality and the threat to international collaboration and exchange.
Through this test, we now understand the effort needed to overcome threats of this magnitude and we have proven that even closer collaboration will be needed to overcome future challenges. Like many other university presidents, I have begun thinking of ways in which the institution I lead can harness its unique placement, its institutional character and its resources to take action.
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US Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit Mexico and Guatemala ‘soon’ for US immigration talks. Harris’ visit is part plans to use diplomacy to slow the flow of migrants arriving at the US border with Mexico from Central America. Biden recently tasked Harris with the job of working with Central American leaders to deter migrants from crossing into the US.
Biden has moved away from the hardline stance taken by former US President Donald Trump on US immigration. Many Republicans have accused the President of causing the migrant surge seen at the US border with Mexico. Republican representatives have described it as a ‘crisis’, while the Biden administration has described the situation as ‘challenging’.