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Big Tent Communique VI final text

Submitted by Chris Duke on October 2, 2015 - 16:48

[Please note: An edited and formatted version of the final text is available here.]

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Progress on the Big Tent Communique VI

Submitted by Chris Duke on September 14, 2015 - 11:13

The 4th and near-final iteration of the Big Tent Communique VI is to be printed and translated for discussion and adoption at the end of the 12th PASCAL Conference in Catania next month. The theme is Local Identities and Global Citizenship: the Challenge for Universities.

There is still an opportunity to review and contribute to this process now through the Big Tent Communique VI discussion forum on the Outside The Box (OTB) site. Here you can find the net text and post your advice.

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Invitation to become a member of the Friends of PASCAL Association

Submitted by Chris Duke on August 17, 2015 - 18:42

You are invited to become a member of the Friends of PASCAL Association headquartered in Melbourne Australia:

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Call for comments/suggestions on the SECOND draft of the 6th Big Tent Communiqué

Submitted by Chris Duke on August 4, 2015 - 09:39

Your critical feedback on this new Big Tent draft for the Catania Conference will be most welcome. So will any new thoughts related to the theme and earlier discussion.

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Friends of PASCAL Association

Submitted by Chris Duke on July 30, 2015 - 13:46

Following an initial founding meeting held in Melbourne in February this year a Friends of PASCAL Association was formed on 4 July 2015, and is registered in Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia. This will be a valuable supplement to the work of the International Observatory. It sits very well with changes in governance arrangements under way with the Board, especially its new and wider concept of membership.

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Big Tent – Draft 6th communique to discuss, finalise and release at the PASCAL Catania Conference in October.

Submitted by Chris Duke on June 25, 2015 - 18:03

PASCAL is a founder and lead player in the Big Tent initiative started in 2010. Here is a draft towards a communique for our Catania Conference in October. Please try to read and work and comment so we can get the best and strongest possible outcome – one that will be heeded and help to make a difference. We want something that will not be easily ignored. The Pope's new and unequivocal Encyclical sets the bar pretty high!

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Celebrating the life and work of Sir David Watson -Green Templeton College, Oxford 3 June 2015

Submitted by Chris Duke on June 17, 2015 - 05:42

As PASCAL Website users and many members of PASCAL anyway well know, David was an outstanding person and a leading global-local advocate of university engagement and of useful and relevant education for the community and for society generally.

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Outside the Box (OTB) – a new PASCAL Website facility

Submitted by Chris Duke on December 17, 2014 - 22:52

The PASCAL Advisory Council (PAC) is launching a new platform to facilitate an exchange of fresh views and experience on issues concerning PASCAL themes and concerns.

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