Looking back to his freshman year in 1963, Roger Lehecka, who graduated from Columbia College in 1967, served as Dean of Students from 1979 to 1998 and now teaches an American Studies seminar on Equity and Access in American Higher Education, describes the Columbia of his college career as a “dramatically different place.”
“When I arrived as a freshman, all the black and Hispanic freshmen could have fit in a Carman suite,” he says. “Maybe Asian students would’ve pushed it into the double-digits.”
