The 1754 Society honors and acknowledges alumni and friends of Columbia who have made plans for the University through trust, estate, or other planned gifts. Named for the year in which King’s College, the future Columbia University, was established, the Society recognizes the vital role planned gift donors have played over the centuries in Columbia’s emergence as a preeminent educational institution and the role they play today in ensuring its continued excellence.<br /> On November 12, 2015, the Committee on Global Thought participated in a discussion with members of the 1754 Society titled “From 1754 to 2054: Columbia’s Global Future from the Perspective of the Committee on Global Thought.” This special conversation discussed how Columbia University is preparing students to live and thrive in an increasingly interdependent and interconnected world. CGT Chair Carol Gluck and CGT members Vishakha N. Desai, Mamadou Diouf, Wafaa El-Sadr, and Adam Tooze, along with MA Global Thought student Wei Qing Tan and undergraduate student Jeffrey Niu, all ventured to answer what they thought this world look like in 2054, the year of Columbia’s tricentennial, and how they thought Columbia could meet the challenges of new teaching and research that cross conventional disciplines and geographies to address issues as disparate as health and human security, religious diversity, global capitalism, world order thinking, and humanistic values?

The 1754 Society honors and acknowledges alumni and friends of Columbia who have made plans for the University through trust, estate, or other planned gifts. Named for the year in which King’s

November 12, 2015

From 1754 to 2054: Columbia’s Global Future from the Perspective of the Committee on Global Thought

Rainbow Room, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY

Columbia University is preparing students to live and thrive in an increasingly interdependent and interconnected world. What will this world look like in 2054, the year of Columbia’s tricentennial? How can Columbia meet the challenges of new teaching and research that cross conventional disciplines and geographies to address issues as disparate as health and human security, religious diversity, global capitalism, world order thinking, and humanistic values?

In this special conversation organized exclusively for the 1754 Society, senior faculty members of Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought (CGT) from across the University and Medical Center joined a graduate student from the newly established MA in Global Thought and an undergraduate student from the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought to discuss what it will mean to think, act, and teach globally over the next four decades. Vishakha N. Desai, President Bollinger’s special adviser for global affairs, a professor at SIPA, and a member of the CGT, introduced the program and Professor Carol Gluck, chair of the CGT and George Sansom Professor of History, moderated.

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