{"id":4688,"date":"2011-11-25T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-03-17T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T19:10:07","slug":"columbia-al-habla","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/amchamchile.cl\/en\/noticia\/columbia-al-habla\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:es-->Columbia Al Habla<!--:--><!--:en-->Columbia Calling<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Si bien miles de chilenos aspiran a estudiar en Estados Unidos, s\u00f3lo un pu\u00f1ado de ellos en realidad tiene la posibilidad de hacerlo. Pero las cosas podr\u00edan simplificarse para aquellos potenciales estudiantes desde marzo del pr\u00f3ximo a\u00f1o cuando la Universidad neoyorkina de Columbia abra sus puertas en Santiago. Columbia escogi\u00f3 la capital chilena como el lugar para su \u00faltimo \u201ccentro global\u201d. La universidad ya cuenta con centros similares en Amman, Beijing, Mumbai y Par\u00eds, y en v\u00edas de abrir en Nairobi y Estambul. Santiago operar\u00e1 como el centro de la universidad para la regi\u00f3n de habla hispana de Am\u00e9rica Latina. La universidad planea abrir otra oficina en R\u00edo de Janeiro el pr\u00f3ximo a\u00f1o para atender a Brasil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La directora de la oficina de Santiago es Karen Poniachik, ex ministra del anterior gobierno de Michelle Bachelet y mag\u00edster en asuntos internacionales de la Universidad de Columbia. \u201cHoy en d\u00eda, Columbia es una universidad global, no solo una instituci\u00f3n de Nueva York\u201d, dijo a bUSiness Chile. \u201cSus estudiantes provienen de todas partes del mundo, tiene alumnos en todo el mundo y realiza investigaci\u00f3n en todo el mundo, de modo que tiene una presencia global\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poniachik se\u00f1ala que el centro tendr\u00e1 tres objetivos. En primer lugar, promover\u00e1 el reclutamiento por parte de alumnos, graduados y facultades profesionales de Columbia. Los chilenos que quieran estudiar en Nueva York podr\u00e1n averiguar que se ofrece. En segundo lugar, la oficina de Santiago promover\u00e1 el intercambio entre facultades y pondr\u00e1 a los investigadores en Nueva York en contacto con sus pares en Am\u00e9rica Latina. Y en tercer lugar, facilitar\u00e1 los intercambios estudiantiles, lo que permitir\u00e1 a los alumnos de Columbia vivir, trabajar y estudiar en Chile. Al establecerse en Santiago, Columbia espera asegurar que sus acad\u00e9micos desempe\u00f1en un mayor rol en el debate de las pol\u00edticas p\u00fablicas, no solo en Chile sino que en toda la regi\u00f3n.&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 4px;\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Karen_Poniachik_esp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">El \u00edmpetu de este proyecto provino en parte del millonario empresario chileno Andr\u00f3nico Luksic, quien tiene una larga amistad con John Coatsworth, el decano de la Escuela de Asuntos P\u00fablicos e Internacionales (SIPA, por su sigla en ingl\u00e9s) de la Universidad de Columbia. Fue la influencia de Luksic la que ayud\u00f3 a asegurar que se escogiera a Santiago por sobre otras ciudades latinoamericanas. Luksic est\u00e1 proporcionando parte del dinero para la nueva oficina, pero Poniachik indica que est\u00e1 buscando financiamiento adicional tanto del sector p\u00fablico como del privado. \u201cEl financiamiento es un gran tema\u201d, reconoce. \u201cUno de mis desaf\u00edos es financiar no solo los programas, sino que tambi\u00e9n las actividades de investigaci\u00f3n y los intercambios\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">En este momento, una peque\u00f1a cantidad de estudiantes va a Columbia desde Chile cada a\u00f1o gracias a becas proporcionadas por Luksic. Pero estas becas solo est\u00e1n abiertas a funcionarios de Gobierno de los Ministerios de Energ\u00eda y Medio Ambiente. Otros chilenos financian sus estudios en Columbia con becas del programa estatal Becas Chile. Poniachik est\u00e1 en negociaciones con los directores de Becas Chile y otro programa estatal, la Comisi\u00f3n Nacional de Investigaci\u00f3n Cient\u00edfica y Tecnol\u00f3gica (Conicyt), a fin de tratar de obtener m\u00e1s becas para una mayor cantidad de estudiantes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La directora del centro tambi\u00e9n quiere recurrir a la red de ex alumnos de Columbia para hacer que el proyecto despegue. En Chile, esos ex alumnos incluyen a los ex ministros de Hacienda Andr\u00e9s Velasco y Hern\u00e1n B\u00fcchi, los economistas Joseph Ramos y Manuel Agos\u00edn, el pedagogo Gregory Elacqua y el escritor Arturo Fontaine, director del Centro de Estudios P\u00fablicos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHay m\u00e1s de 200 ex estudiantes de Columbia viviendo en Chile\u201d, afirma Poniachik. El desaf\u00edo es encontrarlos a todos. Actualmente tenemos cerca de 150 en nuestra lista de correo, los que van desde personas que estudiaron ah\u00ed en la d\u00e9cada de los 60 hasta gente que estuvo ah\u00ed recientemente\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poniachik enfatiza que la oficina de Santiago no ser\u00e1 un campus. Los estudiantes no podr\u00e1n estudiar en la sede. La idea, m\u00e1s bien, es usarla como un trampol\u00edn para las operaciones latinoamericanas de Columbia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aun cuando la oficina no abrir\u00e1 formalmente hasta marzo, Columbia ya ha organizado actividades en Chile. A comienzos de noviembre, la historiadora y catedr\u00e1tica de Barnard Nara Milanic vino a Santiago para presentar su libro <em>Los Or\u00edgenes de la Inequidad en Chile<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Y, en enero, Columbia realizar\u00e1 cursos ejecutivos de una semana sobre finanzas internacionales en colaboraci\u00f3n con la Universidad de Chile. \u201cProfesores de Columbia vendr\u00e1n desde Estados Unidos para ense\u00f1ar a estudiantes chilenos\u201d, cuenta Poniachik.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La gama de oportunidades ofrecidas a los estudiantes ser\u00e1 amplia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cColumbia es uno de los institutos acad\u00e9micos m\u00e1s multidisciplinarios de Estados Unidos\u201d, se\u00f1al\u00f3 Poniachik. \u201cSe ense\u00f1a de todo desde estudios religiosos hasta finanzas, derechos humanos, emprendimiento, f\u00edsica, geolog\u00eda y temas de g\u00e9nero\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Una vez que la oficina de Santiago est\u00e9 operando, Poniachik se\u00f1ala que volcar\u00e1 su atenci\u00f3n a otros pa\u00edses de la regi\u00f3n contact\u00e1ndose con ex alumnos de Columbia en Per\u00fa, Argentina y Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPero esa es la segunda etapa\u201d, afirma. \u201cPor ahora, estamos preocupados de encontrar una oficina aqu\u00ed. Vamos a comenzar peque\u00f1os y crecer con el tiempo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gideon Long trabaja como periodista freelance en Santiago<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--:en--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While thousands of Chileans aspire to study in the United States, only a handful actually gets the chance to do so. But things will become a little easier for those would-be students from March next year when New York\u2019s Columbia University opens its doors in Santiago. Columbia has chosen the Chilean capital as the site for it latest \u201cglobal center\u201d. It already has similar centers in Amman, Beijing, Mumbai and Paris and is in the process of opening in Nairobi and Istanbul. Santiago will serve as Columbia\u2019s hub for Spanish-speaking Latin America. The university plans to open another office in Rio de Janeiro next year to serve Brazil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The director of the Santiago office is Karen Poniachik, a former minister in the previous government of Michelle Bachelet and a Columbia alumnus with a Master&#8217;s degree in International Affairs. \u201cColumbia is a global university these days, not just a New York institution,\u201d she told bUSiness Chile. \u201cIts students come from all over the world, it has alumni all over the world, and it conducts research all over the world, so it has to have a global presence.\u201d&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 4px;\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Karen_Poniachik_ing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She says the center will have three aims. Firstly, it will promote recruitment by Columbia\u2019s dozens of undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. Chileans who want to study in New York will be able to find out more about what is on offer. Secondly, the Santiago office will promote faculty exchanges and put researchers in New York in touch with their peers in Latin America. And thirdly, it will facilitate student exchanges, allowing Columbia students to live, work and study in Chile. By setting up in Santiago, Columbia hopes to ensure its academics play a greater role in public policy debate, not only in Chile but throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The impetus for this project came in part from Chilean business magnate Andr\u00f3nico Luksic, who has a long-standing friendship with John Coatsworth, the dean of Columbia\u2019s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). It was Luksic\u2019s influence that helped ensure that Santiago was chosen over other Latin American cities. Luksic is providing some of the money for the new office but Poniachik says she is looking for additional funding from both the public and private sectors. \u201cFinancing is a big issue,\u201d she acknowledges. \u201cOne of my challenges is to finance not only the programs but also research activities and exchanges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the moment, a small number of students go to Columbia from Chile each year thanks to grants provided by Luksic. But these grants are only open to government officials from the energy and environment ministries. Other Chileans finance their studies at Columbia with grants from the state program Becas Chile. Poniachik is in talks with the directors of Becas Chile and another state program, the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (Conicyt), to try to secure more grants for a greater number of students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also wants to tap into Columbia\u2019s alumni network to get the project off the ground. In Chile, those alumni include former finance ministers Andr\u00e9s Velasco and Hern\u00e1n B\u00fcchi, economists Joseph Ramos and Manuel Agos\u00edn, educationalist Gregory Elacqua and writer Arturo Fontaine, director of the Center for Public Studies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere are more than 200 former Columbia students living in Chile,\u201d Poniachik says. The challenge is to find them all. We currently have around 150 on our mailing list, ranging from people who studied there in the 1960s right through to people who were there recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poniachik stresses the Santiago office will not be a campus. Students will not be able to study there. The idea, rather, is to use it as a springboard for Columbia\u2019s Latin American operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even though the office is not due to open formally until March, Columbia has already organized activities in Chile. In early November, the historian and Barnard professor Nara Milanic came to Santiago to present her book on the origins of inequality in Chile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And, in January, Columbia will run week-long executive courses on international finance in collaboration with the University of Chile. \u201cProfessors from Columbia will come down from the United States to teach Chilean students,\u201d Poniachik says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The range of opportunities offered to students will be broad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cColumbia is one of the most multidisciplinary academic institutes in the United States,\u201d Poniachik said. \u201cThey teach everything from religious studies to finance, human rights, entrepreneurship, physics, earth studies and gender issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the Santiago office is up and running, Poniachik says she will turn her attention to other countries in the region by reaching out to Columbia alumni in Peru, Argentina and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut that\u2019s the second stage,\u201d she says. \u201cFor now, we\u2019re concerned with finding an office here. We\u2019ll start small and grow over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gideon Long is a freelance journalist based in Santiago<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Si bien miles de chilenos aspiran a estudiar en Estados Unidos, s\u00f3lo un pu\u00f1ado de ellos en realidad tiene la posibilidad de hacerlo. Pero las cosas podr\u00edan simplificarse para aquellos potenciales estudiantes desde marzo del pr\u00f3ximo a\u00f1o cuando la Universidad neoyorkina de Columbia abra sus puertas en Santiago. Columbia escogi\u00f3 la capital chilena como el lugar para su \u00faltimo \u201ccentro global\u201d. 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