All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students the process of solving the world's most persistent

The social problems, such as the burgeoning population, racial inequity, aging society, crime, violence and drugs, are existing globally, whether the developing countries or developed countries. Concerning different countries varies in culture, religious, politics and economy; someone maintains that all nations should help support the development of a global university designed to nurturing students to solving the world's most persistent social problems. As far as I am concerned, to some extent, the global university may make some sense in researching problems concerning these problems, but solving them, the effectiveness and influence of the global university are limited.

Admittedly, the global university may be conducive to in terms of going deep into some social problems, with faculties of different countries different society, cultural and religious backgrounds, by contrast to bias and limitations in their own countries. For example, AIDS is disseminating all around the world, and nowadays, the numbers of people infected with HIV is increasing sharply year by year. Both in developed countries like America and developing countries like China other African countries. A global university may concentrate on these severe problems, given the difference in social cultures, customs, religions and economy status. Consider, years before, a large proportion of people in China who infected with HIV by blood, now by sex is increasing. As the same time, according to a survey from New York Times, the homosexual people are rapidly increasing infected in US these years. Before the effective medical methods are invented by doctors, are there any measures we can do to decrease the number of people died by AIDS? Some social notions behind AIDS epidemic, like people’s values and attitudes to sex and homosexual, may be the content to research by the global university.

However, it is dubious and questionable that the effectiveness and influence of the global university, that is to say, is it worthy to support such a global university. Three view points may be contributed to my assertion. Firstly, the university may establish some disciplines, relevant to the social problems, containing the social customs, religious, people's psychology, conduct and so forth. However, this disciplines and academy are well-development in the world-famous universities, like Harvard, Yale, etc. Moreover, in these universities, many professors and teachers are coming from different countries, and they do have the global sense. Secondly, the way to nurturing the students in the global universities is also hard to make a consensus, for no ancestor’s experience we may give reference to. It is evidently university is a kind of place to nurturing students with knowledge and make them all-round mind, not a place gathering the people of problem solvers, and how it is ridiculous. Thirdly, the supporters of the global university is may probably by some large countries, concerning the funds and money are a larger amount yearly, solving social problems may be biased in the interest of some large, and world-influenced countries, the interest of others may be not guaranteed.

Therefore, it is more practical and useful to concentrating on the cooperation between the nations and countries, rather than supporting a global university to do some research on the theory and experiment. In most situations, even if students from the global university conceive a good way to solve these problems, unless the countries cooperate to practice it, how it will be solved? Mostly, the interest of different nations and groups is hard to balance. In my viewpoint, some goal-oriented organization is more practical and effective. For instance, the World Health Organization, concentrating on the health problems happen in the global world, like some epidemic, SARS etc. In these organizations, specialists and professors from all over the world will cooperate and collaborate on the issues and problems, and find the most practical method to solve them. Just like AIDS, I mention before, a similar kind of organization may be established by the United Nations to solve this problems, which is also more economical and flexible. Unlike a university, if you build up it, it is running and management needs many resources and money.

To sum up, a global university is likely is worthy to support or not needs careful and thorough considerations by all nations. To solve the most persistent social problems, all nations should cooperate widely and practically and attitudes and sincerity are the most important, rather the research on the how to solve them.