Columbia history

Professor anarchist

Columbia's history has deep roots in the revolutionary.

By Thai Jones | Sep 8 10:12 pm ET

After thirty years, CU-EMS in transition

CAVA members say they've undergone a number of transitions throughout their 42-year history.

By Chelsea Lo | Dec 1 03:48 am ET

Looking Back: Mid-Century Columbia

Research for my senior thesis led me to three states and through countless folios, but no matter how far I wandered and how much I tried, I could never get away from Columbia.

By Chris Kulawik | Apr 15 08:11 pm ET

This Week: Columbia Edition

Sorry, You Can’t Pick Your Classmates

By Chris Kulawik | Apr 1 11:07 pm ET

Up Against the Wall... or Let Them Throw Pies

I am so very bored with the 1968 unpleasantness, which people have been talking about more or less incessantly for the last 40 years—but dues have to be paid. This week: praise.

By Robert Ast | Feb 27 09:40 pm ET

Becoming a 'Global University' in Truth

Columbia by all rights ought to be a great, world-renowned institution, yet it continually settles for mere excellence.

By Mark Holden | Jan 27 10:15 pm ET

Girls, Girls, Girls

Anyone who has walked around Columbia in heels knows that women were not part of the equation when the Morningside campus was built. This is perhaps understandable.

By Robert Ast | Dec 10 12:46 am ET

Here’s to You, Jacques Barzun

There are Columbia professors, and there are Columbia institutions. Jacques Barzun is the latter.

By Chris Kulawik | Oct 2 12:05 am ET

Columbia’s Cheaters

TV quiz shows are neither very cool nor very difficult.

By Robert Ast | Sep 17 12:15 am ET

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