Subscribers may be interested to know that U21 [1] is a partner to the UN's Academic Impact [2] initiative and has consultative status with the Economic and Social Committee of the UN (ECOSOC), the only network of universities with that status.
Academic Impact is a global initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in actively supporting ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, literacy, sustainability and conflict resolution. The Academic Impact also asks each participating college or university to actively demonstrate support of at least one of those principles each year. This connection is of interest many parts of U21 including the Research Universities and their Regions [3] collaborative group.