Global Honors College

Partner(s): Kevin Griffin Global Honors College Access: Columbia only Released: June 2010 VIEW PROJECT

CCNMTL played a key role in the design, development, and implementation of the 2010 Global Seminar hosted by the Global Honors College, an inter-institutional program organized by Waseda University (Tokyo) that convenes faculty and undergraduate students from leading universities worldwide to conduct joint, structured, and sustained investigations of enduring and emerging global issues. The Global Honors College selects highly motivated undergraduate students from nine universities--including Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Peking, Korea, and Waseda, and others--to participate in the Global Seminar, an annual, summer-long intensive course in which participants collaboratively research, debate, and document a specific topic; the 2010 Global Seminar focused on the subject of "sustainability." The seminar began with a two-month online phase followed by an "onsite" phase in Tokyo in which students and faculty met for a rigorous three-week period.

Global Master's in Development Practice

Partner(s): Jeffrey Sachs Earth Institute Access: Private Released: September 2009 VIEW PROJECT

The Global Master's in Development Practice (MDP) is a two-year degree providing graduate-level students with the skills and knowledge required to better identify and address the global challenges of sustainable development, such as poverty, population, health, conservation, climate change, and agricultural productivity. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has committed $15 million to create MDP programs at up to 15 universities worldwide over the next three years.

CCNMTL supports the MDP with a suite of technological tools to help achieve the program's goals. These include a range of customized tools that enable synchronous and asynchronous collaboration among the participants in shared courses taught simultaneously at many universities around the world, and a customized social network to encourage and foster a global community of sustainable development practitioners.

Global Classroom

Partner(s): Jeffrey Sachs Earth Institute Access: Open to all Released: February 2008 VIEW PROJECT

The Global Classroom project provides an incomparable opportunity for students and professors at multiple institutions around the world to actively collaborate in shared courses. Live, global discussion sessions form a key component of every Global Classroom course, allowing course participants to interact in real time. These synchronous activities, in turn, are supplemented by specialized online environments providing continuous, global access to course resources. With videotaped lectures, global online discussion forums, specially customized course management systems, and more, faculty and students engaged in a Global Classroom course make use of a range of tools that enhance interactions across distances and time zones.

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MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative

Partner(s): Anke Ehrhardt HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies Access: Private Released: February 2008 VIEW PROJECT

The MAC AIDS Leadership Initiative trains fellows from South Africa in HIV/AIDS prevention at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Columbia University. The initiative is a 12-month training program designed to cultivate new leaders in HIV/AIDS prevention who will make a major contribution to advocacy and programming at the local, regional, or national levels within South Africa. This web-based environment is designed to help the program meet its objectives of training these emerging leaders on reducing the spread of HIV and the impact of AIDS by addressing the role of gender inequality.

The MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative project was developed in partnership with the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at NYSPI and Columbia University. The UCLA Program in Global Health was also a collaborator. The project was funded by the MAC AIDS Fund.

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View the MAC AID Leadership Initiative website