Bollinger

When the FBI asked University President Lee Bollinger to monitor foreign-born Chinese students on campus last fall, he rebuffed the intelligence organization.

University President Lee Bollinger addressed the impact of Manhattanville expansion on the West Harlem community, the University’s plans to address climate change, and the importance of differing viewpoints on college campuses with regards to free speech during his semesterly fireside chat on Tuesday.

Three new members were appointed to Columbia’s board of trustees, University administrators announced in an email on Thursday morning.

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger recently announced the establishment of a Climate Change Task Force through a schoolwide email, in which he asked the Columbia community, “Are we doing enough?”

The Columbia chapter of the Sunrise Movement, an organization which aims to stop climate change, has called on University President Lee Bollinger to sign the UN Environment’s Global Climate Emergency letter and declare a climate emergency by Dec. 1.

This was not what College Walk is supposed to look like at 8:15 a.m. on a Friday. The crowd, led by Roar-ee, bounced lightly on the balls of their feet. Some chugged water, others chatted with friends, but a few were laser-focused, headphones in. The buzz of anticipation that encompassed campus on Friday was all for President Lee Bollinger’s 18th annual Fun Run.

U.N. human rights investigator Agnès Callamard denounced the slow progession toward justice for Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on a panel at the Journalism School on Friday, criticizing a lack of response from both the United Nations and other international forces just days before the first anniversary of the dissident’s murder in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consolate.

Members of Community Board 9, a local NYC advisory board that represents Morningside Heights, Manhattanville, and Hamilton Heights, discussed tenant harassment and property ownership programs at a monthly general board meeting that was attended by University President Lee Bollinger on Thursday night. For the first time, the board meeting was held at the Forum building on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus.

Columbia will establish two new task forces in the coming year to address climate change and how the University can serve humanity on a larger scale, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an email Thursday afternoon.

Despite plans for the School of International and Public Affairs to move to Manhattanville by 2020, an apparent lack of fundraising plans—due to lack of administrative priorities and limited alumni engagement—have left the future of the move up in the air.