An Update on the President’s Advisory Committee on Institutional Voice

Dear Members of the Columbia community:

In September, I announced the creation of a President’s Advisory Committee on Institutional Voice to provide me with a set of recommendations on the proper role of institutional voice in advancing Columbia’s academic mission and its commitment to open inquiry and free expression. I am writing now with an update on this critical work.

I am pleased to share that the Committee has begun its work, including developing an engagement strategy and holding meetings with faculty, students, administrators, and staff from across the University. The Committee anticipates completing its work and providing a report to me by the end of the current academic year. The full roster of Committee members is listed below. They include thoughtful and experienced faculty from departments and schools across our campuses, and I am very grateful to them for agreeing to do this challenging and urgently needed work.

The Committee has also established a website, which will be a resource for further information and updates. It will welcome input and feedback from members of the Columbia community, so please get in touch with them at [email protected] if you would like to share your thoughts and insights.

I offer my deepest thanks to the two distinguished Co-Chairs, Daniel Abebe, Dean of Columbia Law School and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, and Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies, and to all the members of the Committee. We are very fortunate to have their deliberations guide us in this important project.

All my best,

Katrina Armstrong
Interim President, Columbia University in the City of New York

President’s Advisory Committee on Institutional Voice

• Daniel Abebe, Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law (Co-Chair)
• Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies (Co-Chair)
• Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics
• Courtney Bender, Tremaine Professor of Religion
• Alessandra Casella, Professor of Economics and of Political Science
• Elizabeth Corwin, Anna C. Maxwell Professor of Nursing
• Sabrina Diano, Robert R. Williams Professor of Nutrition (in the Institute of Human Nutrition) and Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
• Paul Glasserman, Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business
• Helen H. Lu, Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Dental and Craniofacial Engineering (in Dental Medicine)
• Gillian Metzger, Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law