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| − | *[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/president/communications%20files/columbiacommitteeon%20globalthought.htm Bollinger's | + | *[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/globalthought/ Official website] |
| + | *[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/president/communications%20files/columbiacommitteeon%20globalthought.htm Bollinger's announcement of the committee's creation] | ||
| + | *[http://socialthought.uchicago.edu/ UChicago's Committee on Social Thought] | ||
[[Category:Faculty groups and research centers]] | [[Category:Faculty groups and research centers]] | ||
Revision as of 00:26, 6 August 2007
Nobody's really sure what the Committee on Global Thought does. It seems to be a PR move, designed to keep Columbia's "superstar faculty", such as Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, and Orhan Pamuk, in the limelight. It is, however, well-funded and its events have good, free food, even if the content ranges variously from the incomprehensible to the incoherent.
Fun Fact: the group 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.
