Difference between revisions of "Committee on Global Thought"
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| − | Nobody's really sure what they do. They seem to be a PR move, designed to keep Columbia's "superstar faculty", such as Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, and Orhan Pamuk, in the limelight. The are well-funded and their events have good, free food, even if the content ranges variously from the incomprehensible to the incoherent. | + | Nobody's really sure what they do. They seem to be a PR move, designed to keep Columbia's "superstar faculty", such as [[Jeffrey Sachs]], [[Joseph Stiglitz]], and [[Orhan Pamuk]], in the limelight. The are well-funded and their events have good, free food, even if the content ranges variously from the incomprehensible to the incoherent. |
Fun Fact: Came up with the slogan "Think globally, act locally." | Fun Fact: Came up with the slogan "Think globally, act locally." | ||
| + | The name is a ripoff of the [[University of Chicago]]'s much older and more intellectually rigorous Committee on Social Thought, which actually awards its own [[PhD]]s. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/president/communications%20files/columbiacommitteeon%20globalthought.htm Bollinger's official announcement.] | *[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/president/communications%20files/columbiacommitteeon%20globalthought.htm Bollinger's official announcement.] | ||
Revision as of 20:08, 5 August 2007
Nobody's really sure what they do. They seem to be a PR move, designed to keep Columbia's "superstar faculty", such as Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, and Orhan Pamuk, in the limelight. The are well-funded and their events have good, free food, even if the content ranges variously from the incomprehensible to the incoherent.
Fun Fact: Came up with the slogan "Think globally, act locally."
The name is a ripoff of the University of Chicago's much older and more intellectually rigorous Committee on Social Thought, which actually awards its own PhDs.
