GPS | Global Project Site

Alumnus Bogdan George Apetri ('06SOA)

"Outbound" became the most nominated Romanian film of 2011 at the Gopos, the Romanian Oscars (Source: School of the Arts)

Department of Architecture at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Prof. Karen Fairbanks will be giving the Keynote Lecture for the opening of a new building in June (Source: Architecture Dept.)

Engineering Abroad

Claire Duvallet (EN) - University of New South Wales (Source: Office of Global Programs)

A New Home

Eric Kutcher (CC) - SIT Kenya (Source: Office of Global Programs)

Welcome to the Global Project Site (GPS). This site is dedicated to keeping the Columbia community informed on the progress of Columbia Global Commons as it moves toward completion. It also will provide content related to the development of the Global Commons. The GPS will include weekly discoveries of Columbia’s global enterprises locally and abroad.

We welcome and encourage your ideas, thoughts and feedback.

Columbia College Alumnus and Student Awarded Fulbright Scholarship

Emily Tamkin ’12 and Cristian Gonzalez ’10 will study in Germany next year as Fulbright Scholarship winners. Tamkin plans to research...

Professor Vidya Dejehia Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India

Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, has been awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government of India.

Freed New York Times Journalists Reflect Upon Their Ordeal in Libya

Despite being kidnapped and beaten, the four New York Times foreign correspondents who were detained in Libya last month...

Global Center Opens in Santiago Chile, Expanding Network to South America

As several American universities build satellite campuses abroad, largely in the Middle East and Asia, Columbia has taken a different approach. Since 2008...

Columbia College Student Receives Ireland's Prestigious Undergraduate Award

Richard Sun ’13 has received Ireland’s prestigious Undergraduate Award for academic excellence and innovation. Sun received the Oscar Wilde Gold Medal in the sustainability category for his paper on “Triple Bottom Analysis of Sustainable Urban Development.”

Columbia Students Invited to Global Honors College

Some of the students in the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development have a rare and exciting opportunity this summer to participate in an international, academic-exchange program through the Global Honors College (GHC). The GHC, which originated...

Milestone	Date
*Phase 1*
Approval of Strategy	March 14
First Columbia Global Commons Working Group	TBD
Presentation of Design Decks by mStoner	April 9
Copy Decks Delivered	April 20
Decision on Design Concept	April 25
Final Approval of Template Suite	May 22
*Phase 2*
Start of Drupal Installation and Set-Up	June 8
HTML Approval	June 18
Copy Decks Approval	June 21
Drupal Ready for Content	August 16
*Phase 3*
Training for Content Editors	August 16
Content Migration Begins	August 16
Soft Launch of Columbia Global Commons	September 13
Usability Testing Complete	September 17
Launch of Columbia Global Commons	September 19

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Open Positions

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