Bollinger Wins Harlem Renaissance With Columbia Chasing Harvard

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

In favor of Columbia’s diversity initiatives

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).

C250 Celebrates Columbians Ahead of Their Time: Pixley Ka Isakka Seme

“The regeneration of Africa means that a new and unique civilization is soon to be added to the world.”
Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1882–1951)
Political Activist
BA 1906, LLD 1928
Seme and three colleagues …

Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) / Columbia Mentoring Initiative (CMI) Career Series

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 …

2/17 – NYC – “Panther Baby” – Meet the Author – Columbia Professor Jamal Joseph

hits bookstores 2/7/12
(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, …

Columbia Still Leads JBHE Rankings

“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 …

U.S. Urges Creativity by Colleges to Gain Diversity

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.

Income gap most extreme in Morningside, Hamilton Heights

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, Civil Rights Activist and First Black Columbia Law Professor, Dies at 58

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.

On Dean Moody-Adams

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