Jordan Freisleben

Awn hopes to expand Lit Hum, CC for GS
Fri, Mar 1, 2013, 2:32am

GS Dean Peter Awn is looking to increase the number of Contemporary Civilization and Literature Humanities sections available to GS students.

The Corps, All Aboard! win first-year CCSC, ESC elections
Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 1:33am

The Corps party says it will work to reduce stress for Columbia College students, and the All Aboard! party is looking to add Google Docs to students' LionMail accounts.

LGBT option considered for applications
Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 6:29am

University senators are doing research into how Columbia and its peer schools use information regarding sexual orientation, if at all, to determine if it would be useful for students to identify as LGBT on applications.

SEAS likely to change computer science requirement
Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 4:09am

The required computer science class will be focused more on the increasingly popular Python programming language, moving away from Java.

CC, SEAS, BC elections end; 212 wins CCSC E Board
Thu, Apr 5, 2012, 10:44pm

Three of the four undergraduate student councils announced election results Thursday night, with student government veterans winning most of the top positions.

SEAS class council, USenate candidates present initiatives
Tue, Apr 3, 2012, 3:45am

Senate candidates vowed to represent SEAS students well in the majority-faculty body, while council candidates outlined initiatives to bring their classes closer together.

All but two races for ESC, SEAS USenate seat uncontested
Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 4:19am

Only the race for the SEAS undergraduate seat on the University Senate and for the class of 2015 council are contested.

Students say new Gateway class could still be improved
Mon, Mar 26, 2012, 4:17am

The semester-long course, which is a requirement for all SEAS first-years, was revamped last year, but some students think that it still leaves something to be desired.

NW Corner Building awarded LEED Gold
Wed, Mar 7, 2012, 4:31am

Over 20 percent of the building is composed of recycled materials, and over 2,000 tons of waste from the construction have been recycled.

General Studies seeking new name, donor
Fri, Dec 2, 2011, 4:48am

Dean of the School of General Studies Peter Awn is looking for a donor to endow a name change for the school. Awn says GS has outgrown the original meaning behind its name—a “highly distinguished name referring back to a state of the medieval universities when they began to expand their outreach more broadly to students, not solely from their own region.”

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