Reservations for the on-campus and off-campus events are required.  Click Here for CI student, faculty, and staff Registration.

Posters of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King Jr., Al Gore, U.S. Presidents who have won the Prize, and Muhammad Yunus will be on display in the Broome Library lobby from Jan. 26th through February 26th.

Brown Bag discussions highlighting Nobel Peace Laureates will be held in the Broome Library at 12 noon on the following dates:
• Friday, Jan. 29 – Nelson Mandela; led by Dr. Andrea Grove
• Wed., Feb. 10 – Al Gore; led by Dr. Don Rodriguez and Dr. Simone Aloisio
• Friday, Feb. 19 – Muhammad Yunus; led by Dr. Ashish Vaidya

Feb. 26 Events:

• Service Symposium Poster Session from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Broome Library Room 1320. These posters will feature service projects/events undertaken by our students, faculty, staff, and community partners.

• Presentation and Book Signing by Professor Muhammad Yunus from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in Salon A. This event is only open to CI students, faculty, and staff. With limited seating you MUST register online.
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• A public event with Professor Yunus will also be held at 4 p.m. at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza (TOCAP). You MUST register online. Click here to register.

• The theme for the afternoon event is “Get On The Bus” and we have made arrangements to bus 500 campus participants to the venue. Free event t-shirts and admission for CI students, faculty, and staff will be available. All those taking the bus will meet at 2 p.m. in parking lot A-10 to receive their free t-shirt and admission ticket.

• Those who prefer to go directly to the TOCAP venue MUST also register online and can pick up their free t-shirt and admission ticket from 2-3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25th in the Housing & Residential Education office in Santa Cruz Village or on Friday, Feb. 26th from 2-3 p.m. in parking lot A-10.
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The book for the sixth annual Campus Reading Celebration is Creating a World Without Poverty by Dr. Muhammad Yunus. The centerpiece of the Campus Reading Celebration will be a visit by Dr. Muhammad Yunus on Friday, February 26, 2010.

Reservations for the on-campus and off-campus events are required.  Click Here for CI student, faculty, and staff Registration.

• View the new video Introduction for the California Institute for Social Business
• For more information on the Grameen Foundation Center visit: Grameen Foundation
• For more information on Muhammad Yunus’ Yunus Centre visit: Yunus Centre

What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger and inequality? As founder of Grameen Bank, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides poor people - mainly women - with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty.

In Creating a World Without Poverty, Dr. Yunus goes beyond microcredit to pioneer the idea of social business - a completely new way to use the creative vibrancy of business to tackle social problems from poverty and pollution to inadequate health care and lack of education. Dr. Yunus’ “Next Big Idea” offers a pioneering model for nothing less than a new, more humane form of capitalism.

Copies of Creating a World Without Poverty are available at the John Spoor Broome Library.  Books are also being provided free to the campus through fundraising efforts of the CSU Channel Islands Foundation. Students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to read the book during the semester.

Faculty are encouraged to incorporate the book into their syllabi, and to encourage or require students to attend Dr. Yunus’ presentations on February  26, 2010.

For more information about the Campus Reading Celebration please contact Amber Weir, Academic Events Coordinator, at  amber.weir@csuci.edu or (805) 437-8548.