Columbia Goes Global: The Next 50 Years

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First Thought:

How many of these facts are new to you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrA4V6YF6SA

Second Thought:

There might be a lot more to know about America's closest geographic neighbor. Imagine the opportunity across an ocean.

A global education - we all aspire to it. As teachers want to provide it, as students to receive it. We associate with "global education" all that desirable: the ideal of responsible "global citizens" capable to think (and act) both local and global, the values of tolerance and diversity, and visions of leadership for the challenges ahead.

What does "global …

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What should be the respective share of humanities and professional teaching in the Core?

A global education is not necessarily a set of facts or courses. As has already been said, it is a sense of open-mindedness, a willingly to acknowledge other possibility, to let the mind go beyond the present setting and to imagine other ways and other peoples. The culture in which you are raised, for better of for worse, endows you with a certain view of the world and how to operate in it. But …

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Columbia University has a longstanding history of community service and engagement. Service learning opportunities ideally allow students to connect classroom instruction with community activities to enhance reflective thinking as well as personal and civic responsibility. How do these connections change when learning or working "globally"?

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Would you have guessed - Tsinghua, the leading science/tech school in

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The following link offers an interesting view. Please feel free to comment.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/21/engineering-vs-liberal-arts-who’s-right—bill-or-steve/

Living in New York City, we feel that everything seems to have one or more links to the rest of the world. It also seems natural to consider Columbia University's curriculum deeply embedded in a global context. Yet can all disciplines, majors or minors, go global? Could they be taught everywhere in the world in the same way? Why do we need to globalize our subjects? Or why shouldn't we globalize …

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