Professor Entigar Leads OISE Team to Represent UofT at the U7+ Student Challenge Summit

Next month, Professor Katherine Entigar (Adult Education and Community Development) will be traveling with three OISE graduate students, Mengyuan Guo (Adult Education and Community Development, MA Student), Jasmine Bégin Marchand (Language and Literacies in Education, CTL, PhD Student), and Emily Dobrich (Adult Education and Community Development, PhD Candidate), to represent the University of Toronto at the 2024 U7+ Student Challenge Summit in Ivory Coast. The UofT team will be joining faculty-student teams from the University of Ottawa as well as France, Nigeria, India, Japan, and Senegal as guests of the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët Boigny in Yamoussoukro from May 13-19.

The "call for proposals" invited teams to identify a local issue and develop an interdisciplinary project highlighting the central theme for this year's summit—inclusive education for inclusive societies—that illustrates the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The team's proposed project, which aligns closely with Dr. Entigar's work on inclusion in adult education with transnational learners, aims to democratize access to higher education for international students through peer mentoring and network-building.

The U7+ Student Challenge is part of the U7+ Alliance, an international alliance of 50+ universities worldwide. The U7+ was formed in 2019 under the patronage of French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron. It consists of university presidents who engage in discussion and concrete action by making commitments that universities may take to address the most pressing global challenges.

Best of Luck, Professor Entigar and team!!