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Columbia Community Scholar Reverend Vivian Nixon is executive director of College and Community Fellowship (CCF), an organization committed to removing individual and structural barriers to higher education for women with criminal record histories and for their families.
Unveiling the stories of runaway slaves and their links to Columbia University in her paper was not an easy task for student Jordan Brewington (CC’17), a descendant of slaves herself. “When I touched a slave inventory, it was very heavy and hard for me, but it grounded me,” said Brewington to the audience during the launch day of the Columbia University’s Slavery Project last January. “It reminded me that this was real, and that I’m real, and that this issue is real.”
After a decade and a half of planning and building, the 17-acre Manhattanville campus is coming to life: The Jerome L. Greene Science Center, home to Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, and the Lenfest Center for the Arts open this spring, and by 2021 will be joined by the University Forum and Columbia Business School.
Stacy Knutt is proud of her construction work on the Manhattanville Campus, her first job in construction after she followed in the footsteps of her father and six of her brothers and became a laborer in Local 79. She joined the Manhattanville crew in 2012 and has been working there ever since.
Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and BioBus today announce a partnership aimed at bringing new educational opportunities to schools and community centers across Upper Manhattan and the Bronx.
“The BioBus scientists create educational opportunities that are authentic, exciting and approachable for diverse audiences,” said Kelley Remole, PhD, director of governance, research support and outreach at the Zuckerman Institute. “Their expertise working with schools and providing after-school programming adds a new dimension to our existing public programs at the Zuckerman Institute.”
On the corner of 125th Street and Old Broadway, community members of all ages have banded together to paint a mural remembering two prominent local activists: Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama. The project site, once home to the Black-owned soul food restaurant and nightclub “Concerto West” and now a Columbia-owned building, has become the canvas for From Harlem with Love: A Mural Project for Yuri & Malcolm by way of hundreds of community volunteers in their effort to preserve the culture of West Harlem activism.
CCE has hundreds of international and domestic summer internship programs for Columbia students in a wide variety of industries. The deadline to apply for many of these opportunities is Sunday, February 12th.
More information can be found at the CCE Website.
When President Barack Obama comes to Harlem again- specifically to West Harlem, where Columbia University- his alma mater - is expanding its home - the visit will give residents, community leaders, and entrepreneurs as much to shout about as their neighbors in academia are celebrating.
For John Reddick, Harlem isn’t just a visual feast, it’s music to his ears. The architectural historian, who leads walking tours of the Upper Manhattan neighborhood, has been researching the cultural connections between early 20th century music written by African Americans and Jews who lived in Harlem.
Marking the achievement of the first major step in Columbia University’s most transformational building project since it moved to its historic Morningside Heights campus in 1896, leaders of the University today dedicated the new Manhattanville campus, now taking shape along Broadway immediately above West 125th Street.
Read Ahead ignites a love of reading in young students through mentoring, improving their confidence as well as their odds for success in school and life. Since 1991, Read Ahead has partnered volunteer mentors with elementary school students throughout New York City for one-on-one lunchtime reading-based mentoring sessions. Through the over 15,000 lunch hours spent annually in Read Ahead, our students develop confidence and other social and emotional skills crucial for success.
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced that two Columbia University Medical Center doctors will lead a new community Wellness Center, located in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on the University’s new Manhattanville campus. Neurologist Olajide Williams, MD, and psychiatrist Sidney Hankerson, MD, are known for their pioneering approaches to improving public health in Harlem and Washington Heights. The Wellness Center will operate with support from Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
On the south side of West 125th Street stands a four-story, century-old building whose façade is sheathed in milky white terracotta. Members of the Columbia community know it as Prentis Hall, which houses parts of the School of the Arts.
A slideshow of photographs showcasing new and renovated buildings across the University.
Columbia University made a commitment to hiring minority-, women- and locally-owned (MWL) businesses to participate in the development of the new Manhattanville campus. The goal is for up to 40 percent of the construction workforce to consist of MWL businesses.