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People of all ages gathered on West 111th Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Saturday for an afternoon of Halloween festivities in an open street event jointly hosted by local organizations, including the West 111th Street Block Association, Haunted Fountain at the Cathedral, and Morningside Merchants.
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BY Columbia Daily Spectator · Jun 9. Throughout its “storied history,” Columbia University has stood at the forefront of national student movements. At each turn, Spectator was there to platform the voices of both activists and their critics. “After 1968” is a retrospective of Spectator content from four critical eras of protest on ...
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BY Joseph Zuloaga · Oct 31. The University Senate’s education committee released its annual report during the senate plenary session on Oct. 25, covering newly approved academic programs, proposed discussions about the war in Gaza, and a review of the committee’s method of conducting five-year follow-ups on academic programs approved by ...
4+1 Barnard programs and Columbia special programs explained
Nov 16, 2020 · The Barnard 4+1 Pathway provides Barnard juniors with a 3.5 GPA or higher an opportunity to apply for an M.S. in biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering or operations research. The Barnard economics department, along with the computer science and ...
A guide to Dodge Fitness Center - Columbia Daily Spectator
Aug 27, 2021 · Located in the northwest corner of campus, Dodge Fitness Center is the hub of physical education and recreational fitness on Columbia’s grounds. Students can walk past Havemeyer Hall and down a set of stairs that will lead them to the gym, which is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends.
The ultimate guide to Columbia graduate schools
Jan 31, 2021 · The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation was ranked as the second-best graduate architecture school in America in 2020 by Architectural Record. Its school is split between four programs: architecture, urbanism, preservation, and real estate.
Decoding the tricky Barnard-Columbia relationship
Apr 2, 2017 · The exact relationship between the two schools starts to get a little murky when we talk about academics and social scenes. In fact, proponents of the idea that Barnard is one of the four undergraduate colleges of Columbia frequently cite the interconnectedness of the two campuses’ academic resources. The fact is that Barnard and Columbia ...
Michael Rosenthal: Carrying Columbia’s Culture From One …
Oct 31, 2019 · At the end of his final year teaching at Columbia, Michael Rosenthal, a professor emeritus in the English department, received a gift from his Literature Humanities students: a hardcover copy of “Tales from Shakespeare” with its pages hollowed out. Inside sat a bound booklet titled “If I Could Be Permitted a Totally Ridiculous Statement”—a compendium of …
House committee releases new texts sent during panel on Jewish …
Jul 2, 2024 · The May 31 panel on Jewish life was part of the University’s alumni reunion weekend programming. It was moderated by Lisa Carnoy, CC ’89, the former co-chair of the board of trustees, and featured David Schizer, the co-chair of the Task Force on Antisemitism; Brian Cohen, the executive director of Columbia/Barnard Hillel; Ian Rottenberg, the director of the …
Teachers College parts ways with Calkins’ controversial reading ...
Oct 11, 2023 · But Calkins’ curriculum came under scrutiny years ago from experts for its inefficacy in teaching children how to read. Many experts have said Calkins’ controversial approach contributed to low-literacy proficiency levels across the country due to a decreased emphasis on phonics in its reading materials, especially in New York City’s school system, in …