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Nobody's really sure what the '''Committee on Global Thought''' does. It was created on [[December 14]], [[2005]] and 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.
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The Committee on Global Thought was established in 2005 at Columbia University to "serve the expanded needs of knowledge and society in the twenty-first century". It is an interdisciplinary research group where the research focus is broader than the concept of globalization and "calls for a collective reflection on the way we teach, analyze, and make our way in the world" .It has piloted courses on "Globalization Global Governance and Issues of Secularism and Diversity in Global Thought". The site provides workshop and other event information.
  
Fun Fact: the group came up with the slogan "Think globally, act locally."
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Notable committee members include Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, former Assitant Secretary-General and Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Michael W. Doyle and leading urban sociologist, Saskie Sassen.  
 
 
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.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 15:51, 28 July 2008

The Committee on Global Thought was established in 2005 at Columbia University to "serve the expanded needs of knowledge and society in the twenty-first century". It is an interdisciplinary research group where the research focus is broader than the concept of globalization and "calls for a collective reflection on the way we teach, analyze, and make our way in the world" .It has piloted courses on "Globalization Global Governance and Issues of Secularism and Diversity in Global Thought". The site provides workshop and other event information.

Notable committee members include Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, former Assitant Secretary-General and Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Michael W. Doyle and leading urban sociologist, Saskie Sassen.

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