Community Principles

The community that we live in is expansive, consisting of three undergraduate schools, two affiliated schools, and 13 graduate and professional schools. The diversity and complexity of this campus serves its beauty, but also makes it difficult to establish inclusive principles for the community.

Tuesday, I sat with a broad coalition of students in a meeting with Maxine Griffith, executive vice president for government and community affairs—in layman’s terms, the lead administrator responsible for handling Columbia’s expansion into Manhattanville.