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Jeanette Takamura, Dean of the School of Social Work, has informed me that she will be stepping down from her position on December 31, 2016, after successfully leading the School for 15 years.
Freedom of expression historically has been regarded as a domestic concern. But modern communication technologies and the unprecedented forces of globalization are blurring the distinction between what is national and what is international, creating an interconnected world that is not bound by traditional borders.
The op-ed column celebrated the Supreme Court's decision on Fisher v. University of Texas, which preserved the use of race in college admissions policies, but argued that universities must help society better understand the painful and still-unresolved historical context within which the need for affirmative action exists.
On a Commencement day when we come together to celebrate a new generation that becomes part of Columbia’s great intellectual tradition, I am sad to report that our university community has lost one of the towering exemplars of that tradition, former Provost and longtime history professor Fritz Stern ’46CC, ’53GSAS.
Bollinger and Knight Foundation President Ibargüen announce their joint venture, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Though litigation, scholarship, and education, this new organization will be dedicated to advocating the principles embedded in the First Amendment. A $50 million endowment and support for annual operating funds from Knight and Columbia will sustain its independence.
I am writing to announce my appointment of Gerald Rosberg as Senior Executive Vice President, as of July 1, 2016.
On this day in 1896, Columbia faculty, students, and alumni gathered on what is now College Walk to dedicate a Morningside Heights campus that was still under construction, marking the start of a momentous chapter in Columbia's long history.
As you know, last Thursday evening, April 14, I offered to move up my meeting with Columbia Divest for Climate Justice (CDCJ) then scheduled for April 29.
I am pleased to announce my appointments of Ruth DeFries and Jeffrey Sachs as our newest University Professors, the highest rank Columbia bestows on its faculty.
President Bollinger argues that higher education's pursuit of diversity would benefit from a greater collective awareness of the relationship between today’s concerns and historic events (slavery, segregation, the Civil Rights Movement) that shed light the complexity of race in America.
I am very sorry to report that, earlier today, three members of the Columbia community died in a bus accident in Honduras.
This article previews the second Supreme Court hearing on Fisher v. University of Texas and argues for the preservation of affirmative action policies in higher education. Without them, the gains we have made toward racial equality will be reversed.
We join in mourning the innocent lives lost and in decrying the violent attacks in Paris, as well as in other cities in recent weeks, just as the world mourned and stood together with New Yorkers after 9/11.
I am pleased to announce that the School of Continuing Education has been renamed the School of Professional Studies.
I write to you today about a national survey conducted last spring at 27 member institutions of the Association of American Universities (AAU), including Columbia.