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President Lee C. Bollinger releases a statement on the Harvard affirmative action case.
The first initiative begins with the creation of a task force to consider what more the University should be doing with respect to climate change. A related and very significant second initiative also involves a task force and will focus on how to extend Columbia’s abilities to bring the extraordinary knowledge and capacities of the University in tandem with the wider academic community and actors beyond the campus to more effectively address pressing human problems.
Bollinger and McRobbie, co-chairs of the committee convened in 2016 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to address voting security, argue that the country should take three steps to strengthen the safeguards for election systems against the mounting cyberthreats. First, increase the cybersecurity of systems used in elections, such as voter registration databases and voting machines. Second and third, use paper ballots and audit election results.
Dear fellow members of the Columbia community:
I do not usually circulate within the Columbia community things that I have written, but I am doing so in this instance because I know many around campus—faculty, students, and the administration—are alarmed by recent reports relating to the subject of this particular piece, now published in The Washington Post.
As I note, the FBI has been encouraging university faculty and administrators to develop protocols to monitor foreign-born students and visiting scholars, with a focus on those who are ethnically Chinese…
I am pleased to announce my appointment of Costis Maglaras to serve as the next Dean of Columbia Business School, effective July 1, 2019.
I write to share the sad news of the passing of Alan Brinkley, Allan Nevins Professor Emeritus of American History and Provost Emeritus.
We write to share the news that Sean Solomon, William B. Ransford Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, will be stepping down as Director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) this coming academic year.
Norms about the First Amendment are evolving—but not in the way President Trump thinks.
The Passing of Columbia University Professor and Trustee Dr. Kenneth A. Forde
I am very pleased to announce that I have appointed Professor Amy Hungerford, a scholar of twentieth and twenty-first century American literature, as the next Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective January 1, 2020.
I write to share the news that Lee Goldman, MD, MPH, Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine, and Chief Executive of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, will be stepping down from his senior executive positions on June 30, 2020.
I am delighted to announce that the Obama Foundation has selected the Columbia University Center for Oral History Research to produce the Obama Presidency Oral History, a comprehensive account of an historic American presidency that will serve as an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and members of the public.