Fourthly, an “Asian Center

for Corporate Social Responsibility at AIT” (ACCSR) has been recently launched, which is a joint venture partnership between the AIT and CSR Asia. Its GS-9973 mission is to advance the development and implementation of effective sustainability solutions both for and by business, and to facilitate development of the supportive framework conditions for corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. The ACCSR will provide a platform for dialog and innovation for the representatives of the private sector in seeking creative solutions for the challenging issues of sustainable development. The pathway to enhancing sustainable development, considering not only the three pillars of economy, environment, and society, but a cross-cutting theme, namely, the human dimension (self), is not easy. The formulation and implementation of sustainable development policies at international, national, and local levels require a new breed of: Policymakers and planners, who can prepare and execute sustainable development policies; and Technical experts working in various sectors, who can develop and disseminate environmentally and socio-economically sustainable MK0683 technologies. During the last few years, it is becoming increasingly important for institutions of higher learning

to start considering sustainable development efforts and initiatives from a significantly longer term perspective or horizon considering sustainable development in a more comprehensive manner. The ADB’s long-term strategy looks at a 2020 period, while the OECD projects 2030 scenarios as to how higher education could evolve, with the aim of informing and facilitating strategic change to be made by government decision makers and other key stakeholders in higher education. While traditionally it may have been the role of a university to take a didactic role

in development, telling society cAMP what is right and what is wrong, and providing science and technology based upon research done within the ivory tower, that role is changing. Society, with its ever increasing number of knowledge centers, has begun to talk back. Therefore, higher education needs to undergo, and is undergoing, fundamental changes. More and more, universities are becoming neutral platforms on which to build collaboration between the public and private sectors and between those who conduct research and those who use it. Universities are becoming the facilitators of dialog and technology transfer. Therefore, we need to forge forward-looking curricula that tear down the walls of traditional disciplines. Institutions of higher learning should be able to train graduates who could address these emerging issues.