Aunque la Universidad de Columbia ya ha obtenido un permiso para demoler tres “brownstones” reconocidos por el estado de Nueva York como edificios de importancia histórica, los vecinos dedicados a la preservación arquitectónica dijeron el jueves que no se darán por vencidos sin luchar.
Organizaciones comunitarias y políticos locales se reunieron el jueves por la noche para hablar sobre estrategias de parar la demolición inminente de los tres edificios, de los cuales la Universidad es dueña y que están situados en la calle 115 entre la Avenida Amsterdam y Morningside Drive.
Even after aggressive fundraising and significant increases in the annual budget reserved for financial aid, the average debt of a General Studies graduate continues to grow.
As the University develops its recently launched centers abroad and plans to build new ones in Europe and South Asia, Columbia must manage an increasingly complex set of interactions among the University’s international institutions.
The subject of constant philosophical and pedagogical debate, the Core unites students in Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and define the University’s undergraduate mission of cultivating critical thinking. Amid the myriad Core experiences, one thing remains clear: Everyone discovers at least one aspect that stretches his cultural knowledge, productively contextualizes her political views, or exposes his previously unknown love for classical literature.
Like all neuroscience and behavior majors, Kathleen Goble racks her brain with questions on, well, the brain. But Goble, unlike most others, can do it all in Spanish.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the Barnard class of 2009 to engage in “citizen diplomacy,” playing on her position in foreign affairs, at the school’s Class Day on Monday.
WEB EXCLUSIVE 5:00 p.m. Former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kofi Annan will come to Columbiato connect with budding diplomats and politicians and work on broader initiatives, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an e-mail Thursday. While Annan has spoken on campus and worked directly with professors here, this will be his first official appointment at Columbia.
When Barnard history professor Owen Gutfreund, the popular, long-time director of the school’s urban studies program, was denied tenure in December 2007, many students and faculty argued that he deserved better. But in fall 2008, Gutfreund received news suggesting his fate had been rewritten.
