{"id":68576,"date":"2015-11-15T12:06:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=68576"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:36:25","slug":"opportunity-to-make-your-social-change-dream-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/opportunity-to-make-your-social-change-dream-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity to Make Your Social Change Dream a Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know a student who has a great idea on how to create social change and wants to make the world a better place? If so, then please suggest that he or she\u00a0apply for Clinton Global Initiative University.<\/p>\n<p>Selected students will receive mentoring, a free conference trip to the annual CGIU meeting at UC Berkeley (April 1-3), and funds to help make their social change dream a reality.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will bring together more than 1,000 innovative student leaders to make Commitments to Action that address some of the world&#8217;s most pressing challenges. Last year seven 166su students were accepted. The early decision deadline is October 16, 2015 so they should apply soon. The deadline has been extended to\u00a0December 4, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about 166su\u2019s involvement with CGIU, visit: lsa.sdes.ucf.edu\/clinton.<\/p>\n<p>CGIU information session: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 from 4:30-5:15 p.m. in LEAD Scholars Academy (Ferrell 165).<\/p>\n<p>For questions, contact Stacey Malaret at: Stacey.malaret@ucf.edu or at 407-823-6492.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton Global Initiative University &#8211; App Deadline Extended Until Dec. 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":68577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[31,5,27],"tags":[12726],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-68576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-business-administration","category-colleges","category-student-life","tag-lead-scholars-academy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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