Watch President Cook's remarks during the Focus the Nation program here.
As a key part of Focus the Nation, students and citizens across the country will vote on five priorities for action. Focus teams will deliver this campus-and citizen endorsed-agenda to congressional offices across the nation on February 18th, when members of Congress are back in their districts for the Presidents Day recess.
Allegheny College will join 1,100 colleges and universities nationwide – 52 in Pennsylvania – in Focus the Nation, an unprecedented national teach-in on global warming solutions. Allegheny faculty and students have planned activities for three days: Jan. 30 and 31 and Feb. 1.
"This is a great opportunity for students and community members from all disciplines and levels of understanding to become involved in the national dialogue on climate change," said Thomas Eatmon, Visiting Scholar in the college's Department of Environmental Science. "The path to U.S. cooperation with the international community begins at the state and local level. There are not many times in life that we all have an opportunity to make such an impact on the future of the world."
Focus the Nation has created a teach-in model centered on three pillars that are considered essential to help today's youth embrace solutions to global warming: education, civic engagement and leadership.
