TMaC Director Anya Schiffrin provides a mid-semester report on how SIPA students and professors are teaching and learning in the age of Zoom.
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While Columbia is not the first college to pass divestment from companies supporting Israel’s occupation, it joins a growing list of U.S. colleges and universities, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which passed a divestment referendum just last week. Columbia follows in the footsteps of Barnard College, where students in April 2018 voted overwhelmingly in favor of a similar divestment referendum.
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Staff writer Zachey Kliger reports on the “Educator Pledge,” an effort by some Columbia Business School students that encourages professors and other educators to turn out younger voters in this year’s election.
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The 2020 US election is one of the most important elections in history, and there’s a problem - young people don’t vote. Anya Schiffrin (TMaC specialization Director) and Allynn McInerney (TMaC specialization Program Assistant), write on why SIPA students should get involved and, more importantly, how.
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Dr. Raymond Givens, a cardiologist and professor at Columbia’s medical school, has been fighting to change the name of Bard Hall since early June. In August, University President Lee Bollinger announced that the dormitory would be renamed. Givens received no credit, and he says his inquiries to the University have gone largely unanswered.
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