Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 12:42am
Nominations for the 2009 Presidential Awards for Outstanding Teaching are due next week. Amid shopping for classes and beginning a new semester, it is easy to overlook administrative e-mails from University President Lee Bollinger’s office.
Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 12:34am
As Columbia students, we are seeking an education. As young people, we are straddling the blurry and often frustrating division between independent adults and naïve youth. Like Jack Kerouac in On the Road, we struggle to find ourselves while enjoying the mayhem and spontaneity of growing up.
Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 12:17am
Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 12:07am
In this society, one has to be a real escape artist—a real Houdini of the soul—if one wants to get away from politics. Open any newspaper in the country, and you’ll find the same three items: a piece about China, an editorial on foreign policy, and something about Barack Obama.
Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 12:00am
Last semester, while most of my peers were jetting around Europe, I decided to study abroad in Kenya through the School of Field Studies.
Sun, Jan 25, 2009, 11:49pm
Ghana has a critical need for better eye care. People are suffering from preventable or curable eye conditions. As a Unite for Sight volunteer, I worked with other volunteers to assist Dr.
Sun, Jan 25, 2009, 11:39pm
I joined Teach For America after I graduated from Columbia in 2003. My experience as a Special Education teacher in Zuni, an American Indian reservation in rural northwest New Mexico, had a profound impact on me.
Sun, Jan 25, 2009, 11:32pm
The Columbia University community may want to try to influence the choice President Barack Obama and Congress will soon make about whether to promptly implement a deliberate policy to handle problem banks.
