Global Pull of Community Engagement: Urban Students Growing Into Youth Ambassadors

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Author(s): Samar El Hitti (New York City College of Technology, CUNY, USA)and Deborah Hecht (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 20
Source title: Preparing Students for Community-Engaged Scholarship in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Aaron Samuel Zimmerman (Texas Tech University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2208-0.ch013

Keywords: Civic Engagement & Social Justice / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter discusses the CUNY Youth Ambassador Program, an undergraduate mentorship and leadership development program with an emphasis on global sustainability that focuses on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, specifically Goal Number 4: Quality Education. The creation and development of this program is one way two educators at the City University of New York responded to the global call for action on quality education, by initiating a collaboration with UNESCO to seed a movement of informed youth undergraduate advocates active in education spaces. This chapter showcases the framework and components of the CUNY Youth Ambassador Program and the aforementioned collaboration, as well as the experience and impact on the undergraduate students involved in this initiative.

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