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The Committee on Global Thought was established by President Lee C. Bollinger in December 2005 as part of his larger goal of transforming Columbia from an already thriving international enterprise into a truly global university to serve the expanded needs of knowledge and society in the twenty-first century. The changing global landscape presents new challenges and opportunities that call for new forms of thought and action of the sort universities can and ought to provide. Alluding to the interdisciplinary Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, President Bollinger created the Committee on Global Thought to provide a space in which to address issues and spark activities across disciplinary and school boundaries and into the wider world of society, politics, and culture.

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