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Shannon Marquez, a former vice provost for international development at Drexel University, will serve as Dean of Undergraduate Global Engagement starting in early November, Columbia College announced this morning.

While University President Lee Bollinger has made Columbia’s global presence one of his main priorities, expiring funding for the Core Curriculum abroad and a lack of communication from key administrative offices have stifled faculty’s involvement in global education.

Columbia’s mission is to be “one of the world’s most important centers of research” with the goal to “support research and teaching on global issues.” It is with this global institutional mission in mind that President Lee Bollinger announced the creation of the Columbia Global Centers in 2009. Since this announcement, Columbia has opened nine global centers across the world in Aman, Beijing, Istanbul, Mumbai, Nairobi, Paris, Rio, Santiago, and Tunis. Bollinger, alongside professor Safwan Masri, the executive vice president for Global Centers, and various global center directors explained in a promotional video that these centers are meant to foster “global conversation on key issues that affect all of us and need to be solved” and to provide “real lessons from the ground to policy makers” that put Columbia “in a position to influence events” in cities globally.

Dean of Undergraduate Global Programs and Assistant Vice President for International Education Michael Pippenger will be leaving Columbia this summer to become the Vice President and Associate Provost for Internationalization at Notre Dame, according to an announcement from Dean of Columbia College James Valentini.

It turns out that the Core Curriculum wasn't invented just to torture the overloaded undergrads of Columbia. Surprise, surprise, you can get more out of it than just your diploma.

Anna Lopresti, CC '16, never imagined that she would come face to face with a rhinoceros as part of her studies.

The Office of Global Programs (OGP) unveiled the Global Health Research for Undergraduates program Tuesday, which hopes to expand global offerings in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and foster a new relationship between undergraduates and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.

For the first time in five years, a Columbia student has won a Rhodes Scholarship.

When the American Rhodes Trust announced the recipients of the 2016 scholarship this past weekend, Columbia students failed to make the cut for the sixth consecutive year.