Difference between revisions of "Five pillars theory"
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Revision as of 18:39, 29 March 2007
Somewhat controversial theory formulated by Tao Tan in 2004.
Basically, it goes like this. There are five pillars that define the greatness of a university. They are (in no particular order):
- Undergraduate education and quality of life
- Law
- Business
- Medicine
- Science & engineering
Columbia's institutional agenda ought to focus on strengthening those five pillars, and not things like sustainable development, globalization, public health, arts, or postmodernist feminist deconstructionist antihegemonist critiques of Marxism.
