Columbia University

Contingency Plan: Outsourcing Education

More than half of all college instructors are now part-time adjuncts, with low pay and no job security. Is the two-tier faculty system harming students, too?

Free Online Classes: Unlocking the Ivory Tower

Colleges flock to offer courses for all, but questions abound

Goodbye, Affirmative Action?

A Supreme Court case has colleges considering how to stay diverse if race-based admissions is axed

The Ditziest Day Of My Life, Bar None!

I'm normally pretty smart. I mean, I went to Harvard...all right, Columbia. But when trying to buy advance tickets to The Master the other day--because I'd missed the premiere due to Fashion Week--I came off like a '70s sitcom character on unspeakable amounts of crack. At the theater's ticket ma ... More >>

Premium Rush

Andrew Zimmern Launching Food Truck, Anita Lo Hates Cafeteria Food

Columbia University's magazine interviews Anita Lo and reveals that she started cooking because her college cafeteria was really gross. "'At the time, Columbia's was known as one of the four worst university cafeterias in the country,' says Lo. 'I wasn't giving in.' She moved off campus after her fr ... More >>

Obama "Scandal" Is At Columbia (Claims "Gut Instinct" Of Right-Wing Vegas Oddsmaker)

Of all the far-right-wing bullshit "journalism" that litters the Interwebs, we've tracked down one of the bull-shitiest -- a Vegas oddsmaker who claims that the most scandalous conspiracy regarding President Barack Obama can be found at Columbia University.Admittedly, he doesn't know exactly what th ... More >>

SPEED DEMONS

Ride in the first big bike race of the season

Columbia University to Investigate NYPD's Muslim Spy Scheme

Columbia University plans on investigating reports that the New York Police Department, which spied on Muslims at Northeastern universities, targeted students at the Ivy League institution, according to The Associated Press (via Wall Street Journal.) At a university meeting Tuesday, Provost John H ... More >>

Council Members Ask Mayor To Include City College, Columbia in Engineering Plan

In December, Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his plans to partner with Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build a two-million-square-foot applied science and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island. The new campus is part of Bloomberg's Applied Sciences NYC initiative ... More >>

Many NYC Private Schools Now Charge More Tuition Than Harvard

​A new in-depth report from the New York Times reveals that some of the city's most desirable private elementary and high schools are now charging more than Harvard does for a year's tuition. (The yearly tuition at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School is already above $38,000, while Harvard ... More >>

Say Goodbye to Terrace in the Sky, Matsuri

It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Here are some of the dogs who got eaten this week. Know of any restaurants or bars opening or closing? Drop us a line. Rocket Joes, a Lower East Side pizzeria loved by late-night revelers, has closed temporarily -- it's going through an ownership change and deali ... More >>

I'm Being Taught at Yale!

As you may have read in yesterday's Page Six, Yale University is currently offering a course in nightlife which features texts by me! My work has finally gone to college! Doctoral candidate Madison Moore is teaching "Dance Music and Nightlife Culture in New York City," for those who can afford to ... More >>

Columbia Marching Band Banned From Game For Being Slightly Irreverent

​Columbia's marching band was banned (and subsequently un-banned) from performing at Saturday's football game against Brown for pointing out the simple fact that Columbia hasn't won a game all season. After every game, the band plays the school fight song "Roar, Lions, Roar." But after the tea ... More >>

For Corporate 'Campus Reps,' Marketing to Classmates Is the Name of the Game

Brand Practice

Ken Jackson, Columbia University Professor, Teaches NYC History on All-Night Bike Ride

For 37 years, Columbia University historian Ken Jackson has taught a session of his class, "The History of the City of New York," in an unforgettable fashion -- namely, on an all-night bike ride, which comes with the special added benefit of ensuring that none of the students fall asleep while being ... More >>

The Return of ROTC to Columbia

Military training programs could return to the campus, four decades after they were banned

Floridita's Fight With Columbia Gets More Toxic

Gonzalez/New York TimesRamon Diaz​The increasingly bitter conflict between Columbia University and Floridita has now spilled over into court. Ramon Diaz, owner of the popular neighborhood eatery at 125th Street and Broadway, has filed suit against Columbia, alleging that the university is respons ... More >>

Stretch and Bobbito, Back on the Air

A hugely influential hip-hop radio show reunites onstage

ADDICTED TO YOU

MMagnetic attraction is more than just chemistry

More High Schoolers Applying to Be Hated By Native New Yorkers

via collegelifestyles​Applications for Columbia and NYU reached new highs this year. NYU Local reports that NYU received "exactly 42,242 freshman applications this year, topping last year's record by 11 percent." The New York Post says that changes in the application process brought "the Mor ... More >>

The Rise of Clickers Is Starting to Change How College Professors Run their Classrooms

Xi'an Famous Foods Wants to Expand to Bedford Avenue

Robert Sietsema​ Along with building a commissary in East Williamsburg, Xi'an Famous Foods is hoping to set up shop in the vicinity of Bedford Avenue.

Are Campuses Doing Double Duty as Drug Havens? Plus: Which NYC School Is the Druggiest?

​The New York Post is billing an "exclusive" this week about how Columbia University has systematically failed to report its drug-using student populace to police or prosecutors. The not-so-earth-shattering expose comes on the heels of last week's big frat house drug bust, which led to the ar ... More >>

What's the Street Price of Cocaine at Columbia University? (UPDATED)

​Holy Scarface! Five Columbia University students/fratboys were busted this week for selling all kinds of crazy drugs at school. Ivy League? More like High-vy League. Luckily, via Columbia's BWOG, understanding the numbers of the busts also gives us a chance to understand how much drugs cost a ... More >>

What Are the Street Prices of Ecstasy and LSD at Columbia University?

​I'm not feelin' the love, brah! Neither are the five Columbia University students/fratboys who were busted this week for selling all kinds of crazy drugs at school. Luckily, via Columbia's BWOG, understanding the numbers of the busts also gives us a chance to understand how much drugs cost at ... More >>

What is the Street Price of Marijuana at Columbia University?

​It's High Times uptown these days, as five Columbia University students/fratboys were busted this week for selling all kinds of crazy drugs at school. Ivy League? More like High-vy League. Luckily, via Columbia's BWOG, understanding the numbers of the busts also gives us a chance to understand ho ... More >>

The Drug Economy at Columbia University: A Conclusion

​This week, we met Columbia's Drug Dealer Frat Boys, and learned: The Street Price of Cocaine at Columbia University! The Street Prices of Ecstasy and LSD at Columbia University! and The Street Price of Marijuana at Columbia University! So, what's next for the boys? And more interestin ... More >>

Columbia University Retracts WikiLeaks Warning, Is Pro-Free Speech After All

Now loved at Columbia -- sort of.​This weekend, Columbia University officials warned students not to talk about WikiLeaks on the Web if they ever wanted a government job. But it seems the institution has now had second thoughts. Previously the message to students had been "DO NOT post links to ... More >>

Columbia University Warns Students Against Mentioning WikiLeaks in Public

Not a Columbia grad​The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University sent out an email warning students not to talk about WikiLeaks on the internet if they hope to ever work in the State Department. The school, which aims to construct new diplomats from scraps of old diplo ... More >>

Are Creative Writing MFAs a "Ponzi Scheme"?

​A Master of Fine Arts in creative writing in America is a curious piece of paper, one that says something about the person holding it -- mostly, that they survived an MFA program without killing themselves, which apparently isn't easy -- and also, in some circles, acts as a certification that ... More >>

Vampire Weekend

The Problems with CUNY's New Sexual Assault Policy

CUNY makes a system-wide change, but anonymous reporting gets left out

Police Seeking Witnesses in Attack of Riverside Park Jogger

The NYPD is looking for witnesses to a robbery and assault that took place in Riverside Park at 6 a.m. on July 5. A 19-year-old woman identified as a Columbia University affiliate was jogging near the tennis courts at West 120th Street when an unidentified assailant pushed her into a wall -- causing ... More >>

RADIO DAMES

Barnard throws a megawatt music festival

Coyotes at Columbia Latest Grim Portent of Nature's Wrath

​Coyotes were spotted on the Columbia University campus Sunday. An Ohio State expert says of the urban coyote incusions, "It's not uncommon at all, and it's going to increase in frequency." Texas A&M students used to get attacked by wolves, but that was in the 19th Century and they were in th ... More >>

HEADACHE

This is your brain on feedback

Cops Investigate Second Columbia Bias Incident

Let Ahmadinejad Defend Himself in Academic Court

Mugging the Minutemen

Forcibly silenced, an invited speaker at Columbia has not been invited back.

1968

Letter to the Editor

Telling it like it is

There Is More To Be Explored In Columbia University's Middle East Studies Than Israel

Aeschylus or Swahili?

The changing notions of what students need to know

Learning For Free

A Columbia professor's poli-sci class is the crack in the ivory tower that lets the neighborhood in

Big Plan on Campus

As Its 250th Birthday Approaches, Columbia University Hits Its Stride

Making Headlines

Is Journalism School for You? An In-Depth Look at the City's Two Choices

Ruffian Fake Radicals

‘It Was Hitler Who Outlawed Free Speech’

Columbia University's Star Chamber

Orwellian Justice on Campus

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