Presidential Scholar Andrew Goldman, and PSSN Steering Committee members Pamela Smith, Tom Jessell, and Peter Bearman were featured in a recent article on interdisciplinary research and curriculum at Columbia.
Defining what it means to be "interdisciplinary" is not an easy task, and students, faculty, and researchers at Columbia have varying opinions of what interdisciplinary research and teaching looks like. Yet, the University has been a proponent of interdisciplinary learning for nearly 100 years, since introducing a core curriculum for its college students. The Pillars of Columbia, featured on the Columbia Spectator website, looks at the rich history of interdisciplinarity at the University, the current Institutes and Centers that endeavor to bring people from different fields together, and the future educational needs of students and scholars confronting society’s major global challenges.
