Core Curriculum

Admins hope to endow Core

Alumni, faculty members, and administrators have been discussing ideas for broad-based fundraising initiative since the fall.

By Jeremy Budd | Feb 10 03:50 am ET

Reinvigorating rationality

We need to look at issues for their reason—not for their espousal of faith.

By Leo Schwartz | Feb 5 05:55 pm ET

Serving the US, serving the world

Columbia should be cognizant of its role in a world of nation-states.

By Derek Turner | Jan 25 01:28 am ET

Internationally national

Columbia's diversity and focus on liberal arts epitomize what the modern American university should be.

By Mrinal Mohanka | Jan 25 12:02 am ET

Changing the Columbia Culture

Students have the power to create a better Columbia.

By Leo Schwartz | Dec 11 09:46 pm ET

Core Curriculum may hit the road with study abroad students

An initiative to bring Core Curriculum classes taught by Columbia professors to study abroad locations is underway in the Office of Academic Affairs.

By Shayna Orens | Dec 9 03:19 am ET

Reflections on Frontiers of Science

Frontiers of Science allows all of us to critically evaluate science, allowing us to question the experts.

By David Kagan | Dec 8 06:57 pm ET

Faculty calls for more involvement in Core Curriculum decisions

Some faculty members say that the that the hallmark of a Columbia undergraduate education would do better in the hands of the Columbia College faculty rather than the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

By Jeremy Budd | Nov 14 03:05 am ET

Pushing the Frontiers

Frontiers of Science deserves to be appreciated as an essential part of the Core Curriculum.

By Cesar Rodriguez | Nov 10 07:08 pm ET

Retired professors stay on to teach Core

Provost Emeritus William Theodore de Bary founded the Society of Senior Scholars in 1988, and it now consists of 33 retired but still-teaching professors.

By Ana Baric | Nov 9 12:27 am ET

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