New Masters Program to Train Sustainable Development Leaders

The first global initiative to provide rigorous professional training for future leaders in the field of sustainable development was unveiled at Columbia University on October 15, 2008. The program, which was recommended in a newly released report by the International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development Practice, sets a new standard for other universities hoping to design their own Masters degrees along this model. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has committed $15 million to seed the creation of such Masters in Development Practice programs at up to 12 universities worldwide over three years.

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[chadisapunkrocker]

well said

[arcanekrusader]

What concerns me about this project is that is the New World Order in action.. Fascism dressed up in a veneer of respectability. Absolutely disgraceful.

[sharpdrpaul]

What concerns me in this most ambitious project, with the Flexner Report as a model, is the development of a rigid, deterministic, reductionistic, and ultimately Western/Eurocentric perspective that is therein of questionable sustainabiltity in all cultures, even in this globalising world. The incorporation of traditional knowledge, rather than best practices strictly facilitated by paradigms of scientific epistemologies may thwart the production of "cookie cutter" development practitioners.