The Centers facilitate a variety of research and teaching programs, representing all professional schools of the University as well as the Departments and Institutes in the Arts and Sciences. Some programs are country specific, some regional, and an increasing number are multi-regional, even global (the long-term ambition is many programs that have a global reach). The network is in its infancy, and each Center has started by building strong links with universities and institutions in its respective region. The network is not viewed as “Columbia abroad,” but, rather, as Columbia embedded in what is emerging as a global community of scholarship.
Africa
East Asia
Europe
Europe/Middle East
Latin America
Middle East
South Asia
Office of Global Centers
What we expect to change the most, but in ways that cannot be anticipated, is Columbia University itself. The initiative is not about “changing the world.” It is about the world changing what Columbia knows, teaches, studies, and learns.