From freshman seminars and the Penn Reading Project to preceptorials and career services, opportunities for undergraduate enrichment and support abound.
The index, published by the US-based, non-profit Social Progress Imperative, calculates whether citizens have access to basic services, opportunities, healthcare, education, housing, decent policing, rights and freedom from discrimination.
"The Iraqi population has exceedingly high expectations, and the window for cooperation may close rapidly if they do not see progress on delivering security, basic services, opportunities for broad political involvement and economic opportunity," the report said.
Other speakers will address access to health services, opportunities for English language learning, and tips for worker and employer emergency preparedness.
However, these women often live in informal settlements with limited infrastructure – such as water, sewerage, electricity and schools, social services, opportunities for social networking and involvement in local governance.
Then he declared, "It's time to engage in diplomatic efforts to help build a new Lebanese consensus that focuses on electoral reform, an end to the current corrupt patronage system, and the development of the economy that provides for a fair distribution of services, opportunities and employment".
