CGI U In The News

From Campaign Trail, Clinton Calls for Service

May 11, 2011

CU Columbia Spectator
Columbia University

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton took a break from his wife’s presidential campaign trail yesterday to urge college journalists, via a phone conference, to commit to solving global and local problems by partaking in the Clinton Global Initiative University.

Clinton announced the launch of CGIU, an expansion of his non-profit, non-partisan group that promotes commitment to enacting these solutions. Clinton described CGIU as a project my foundation started to focus on global leaders, global challenges, and to encourage leaders … in America and around the world to come together, discuss these problems, and always commit every year to take some new specific… action.”