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*[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.]
  
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Revision as of 20:15, 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.

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