Join the Black Alumni Council (BAC) and the Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) for the 2012 Black Alumni Heritage Award reception honoring this year’s recipients Joe Brown ’66CC and Jerry Sherwin ’55CC. Special honoree introductions by Judge Joseph A. Greenaway ’78CC and Renan Pierre ’86CC, ’87SEAS.

A reception with wine, beer, and hors d’oeuvres will follow the program. Please note, you must be 21 years and over to be served alcohol. No exceptions.

Feb 21, 2012

7:00PM – 9:00PM ET

Columbia University Club of New York
15 West 43rd Street, 2nd floor

Register here:
https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/COU/events/COU2355572.html

In advance:
$5 Students
$20 BAC members
$25 Alumni/Guests

At the door:
$10 Students
$30 BAC members
$35 Alumni/Guests

RSVP by 5 p.m. on February 15 to receive the discounted price.

(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, which will be released in February, Professor Joseph details what it meant to be a soldier inside the militant Black Panther movement. He recounts a harrowing, sometimes deadly imprisonment as he charts his path to manhood—a path which eventually brought him back to Columbia University.

TOUR SCHEDULE

Los Angeles, CA
Eso Won Books – 7:30pm, Thursday, February 9
4331 Degnan Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90008
www.esowonbookstore.com

Seattle, WA
Town Hall co-sponsored by University Bookstore – 7:30pm, Monday, February 13
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
www.townhallseattle.org

Boise, ID
Rediscovered Bookshop – 7:30pm, Tuesday, February 14
7079 W Overland Road, Boise, ID 83709
www.rdbooks.org

Washington, DC
Politics & Prose – 7pm, Thursday, February 16
5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
www.politics-prose.com

New York, NY
Columbia University Miller Theater – 6:30pm, Friday, February 17
2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
www.millertheatre.com

Schomburg Center – 1pm, Saturday, March 3
515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10037

http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg

Greenlight Bookstore – 7:30pm, Monday, February 27
686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217

http://greenlightbookstore.com/

Hue Man Bookstore – 6pm, Monday, March 5
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10027

http://www.huemanbookstore.com/

KGB Bar – 7pm, Tuesday, March 6
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003

http://www.kgbbar.com/

Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Free Library – 7:30pm, Tuesday, February 21
1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
www.freelibrary.org

Chicago, IL
Afri-Ware Books – 5pm, Wednesday, February 22
440 South Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302

http://www.afriware.net/

Chicago Public Library – 6pm, Thursday, February 23
Herald Washington Library Center
400 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60615
www.chipublib.org

Miami, FL
Books and Books – 8pm, Thursday, March 8
265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Cables, FL 33134
www.booksandbooks.com

Atlanta, GA
Eagle Eye Books – 1pm, Saturday, March 10
2076 N Decatur Road, Decatur, GA
www.eagleeyebooks.com

Description:   Let’s meet over wine and art at the Getty! We’ll take a stroll atop the city of LA as we network and explore all that the Getty has to offer. Bring your love for the arts as well as your business cards for this very tasteful event.Admission is free, cash bar. Parking is $10 after 5 p.m. All Alumni Welcome.

Registration link:http://theleagueonline.org/20120121-getty-la.php

Questions, contact Courtney Wilkins at courtney@columbiabac.org

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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 113^th St. (btw Broadway and Riverside Drive).  Please RSVP to rsvp@columbiabac.org if you are able to attend.  If you are unable to attend in person, but would like to join us via conference call, please use the call-in numbers below
To participate via conference call, please dial-in:
domestic: 1-877-228-3600
international: 1-719-457-0862
passcode: 839904#

Low Library, Columbia University

“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 among the 30 highest-ranking universities in the nation. There are 174 Black freshmen at Columbia this fall. They make up 12.5 percent of the incoming class.”

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By SAM DILLON

The New York Times

Published: December 2, 2011

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 new guidelines issued by the Departments of Justice and Education replaced a 2008 document that essentially warned colleges and universities against considering race at all. Instead, the guidelines focus on the wiggle room in the court decisions involving the University of Michigan, suggesting that institutions use other criteria — students’ socioeconomic profiles, residential instability, the hardships they have overcome — that are often proxies for race. Schools could even grant preferences to students from certain schools selected for, among other things, their racial composition, the new document says.

“Post-secondary institutions can voluntarily consider race to further the compelling interest of achieving diversity,” reads the 10-page guide sent to thousands of college admissions officials on Friday afternoon. In some cases, it says, “race can be outcome determinative.”

The administration issued a parallel 14-page outline on Friday for the nation’s 17,000 public school districts, explaining what government lawyers consider to be acceptable ways that educators can seek to reduce racial segregation, which has been increasing nationwide.

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By Naomi Cohen

Columbia Daily Spectator

Published December 2, 2011

The Morningside Heights and Hamilton Heights neighborhoods have the highest income disparity in New York City, with the top fifth of the population making more than 30 times that of the lowest fifth.

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 metropolitan area of New York City and northern New Jersey already sees the greatest national gap in income between the wealthiest and the poorest.

Walter South, a preservation architect on Community Board 9, which represents West Harlem and Morningside Heights, cited the simultaneous increase in the salaries of educational administration and stagnation in the salaries of the working class as the main reasons for the inequalities in Morningside.

While the region has seen an influx of upper-middle class families, he said, it also features the highest concentration of public housing in the city.

“People that have lived here the longest have much lower incomes than people moving in here the past five or ten years,” South said.

As of 2010, 34.9 percent of residents are receiving income support, up from 27.4 percent in 2000. The local poverty rate, at 25.9 percent, is over ten points above the national level.

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Location:
New York City Center
130 West 56th Street
New York, New York 10019
NOTE: Box office is on West 55th between 6th & 7th     Avenues
www.nycitycenter.org/

What would your holiday be without an Alvin Ailey performance?

Won’t you join The Black Ivy Alumni League, The Columbia Black Alumni Council and The Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association this holiday season as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre shares a special night full of surprises. You may have missed last year’s performance but you won’t want to do that this year.

Please visit the Black Ivy Alumni League site for details and to register.

Hope to see you there!

Join us for dessert and refreshments on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 from 6:45pm to 8:15pm in the Shapiro Room on the 8^th Floor of the Columbia Alumni Center on 622 West 113^thSt. (btw Broadway and Riverside Drive).  The results of the BAC E-Board election will be announced at this meeting.

Please RSVP to rsvp@columbiabac.org by Tuesday, November 29, 2011 if you are able to attend in order for security to have your name at the front desk.  If you are unable to attend in person, but would like to join us via conference call, please use the call-in numbers below:

Dial-in info:

Toll Free # – 1 – 877 – 228.3600(Domestic)

Toll #  – 1-719-457-0862 (International)

Guest Pass Code – 839904#

Dear Los Angeles Columbia Community,

Many of you have expressed excitement about having an event that would bring Columbia Alum from across the Los Angeles Area together.  After some careful planning and hard work, we are pleased to announce our first event!

We ask that you join us for a great evening to connect, reconnect and/or let loose with fellow Columbia Alums.  The first 15 people to arrive will be given free drink tickets to get the evening kicked off right.  Below you can find information about the venue and a map of the location.  Friends of Columbia Alums are welcome!  We hope to see you there!

Event Details
Saturday, November 5, 2011
7PM – 10PM
Ugo Wine Bar - 3865 Cardiff Ave., Culver City, CA 90232

Ugo Wine Bar, located in historic downtown Culver City, offers a unique and sybaritic experience for discerning wine enthusiasts and casual diners alike.

For additional information, check out our Facebook event page or contact Courtney Wilkins, courtney@columbiabac.org.