Join us for our monthly General Body meeting on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 from 6:45pm to 8:15pm at the King’s College room of the Columbia Alumni Center on 622 West 113th St. (btw Broadway and Riverside Drive). Please RSVP to rsvp@columbiabac.org if you are able to attend.
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Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, in New York. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
By Michael McDonald on April 26, 2012
Lee Bollinger had yet to take over as president of Columbia University in 2002 when he toured a largely industrial area about 10 blocks north of the historic campus on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Columbia, the fifth-oldest U.S. college, was scouting new sites to expand as it outgrew its century-old, Beaux-Arts home in Morningside Heights. Traveling past faded warehouses, auto shops and scattered apartments above 125th Street in West Harlem, Bollinger could see the ideal location for a modern urban campus, stretching from the elevated subway line on Broadway with its monumental steel trestles to the West Side Highway next to the Hudson River.
“It was an area that I think was beautiful but nobody else thought it was beautiful,” Bollinger, 65, said in an interview last month. “Lots and lots of people said to me why would you move there? It’s ugly.”
Last Monday, President Lee Bollinger announced a new $30 million commitment to support the recruitment of “outstanding female and underrepresented minority scholars” in the ongoing effort to diversify Columbia faculty (“Columbia commits $30 million to increasing faculty diversity,” Apr. 2).
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Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1882–1951)
Political Activist
BA 1906, LLD 1928
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Greetings from the Office of Multicultural Affairs!
The Columbia Mentoring Initiative in conjunction with Columbia Career Services is excited to announce a new career series. The Columbia Mentoring Initiative (CMI) is …
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(PANTHER • POET •PROFESSOR• PRISONER • OSCAR NOMINEE) Professor Joseph will be making stops throughout the country for readings of his new book Panther Baby. In Panther Baby, …
“Four years ago Columbia University headed the JBHE rankings for the first time. Now, for the fifth year in a row, Columbia has the highest percentage of Black freshman students …
The Obama administration on Friday urged colleges and universities to get creative in improving racial diversity at their campuses, throwing out a Bush-era interpretation of recent Supreme Court rulings that limited affirmative action in admissions.
The median household income of the highest fifth of the population is $207,053—34 times $6,073, the median income for the lowest fifth, according to a report by the Census Bureau released in November. The median household income of the highest fifth of the population is $207,053—34 times $6,073, the median income for the lowest fifth, according to a report by the Census Bureau released in November.
Kellis E. Parker, a noted legal scholar and civil rights activist who embraced jazz as a framework for understanding the law and, in 1972,became the first full-time black law professor at Columbia University, died on October 10 at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York. The cause of death was acute respiratory distress syndrome, which struck him suddenly at the end of September, said Kimberly Parker, his daughter. He was 58.
We, the Black Alumni Council, thank Dean Moody-Adams for her dedicated service to the Collegeas Dean and Vice President for Undergraduate Education.
Columbia’s black community is particularly gratified that Dean Moody-Adams filled her historicrole as the first minority and first female Dean of the College with such aplomb, grace, anddedication. Dean Moody-Adams set a very high standard for professionalism, scholarship, andcomposure under challenging circumstances
A rendering of the future Jerome L. Greene Science Center as seen from West 129th Street and Broadway. On the right is a depiction of the science center as seen from a plaza on the Manhattanville campus.Now rising on the onetime site of parking lots and warehouses in Manhattanville is the University’s effort to recreate that kind of collaborative space in the Jerome L. Greene Science Building—not just for a single department, but for a wide range of disciplines related to neuroscience.
