The Fulbright U.S. Student ETA Program to Brazil has a SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY for an
additional 20 ETA Awards for grants beginning in MARCH 2011. In addition, the
number of ETA grants for Brazil for March 2012 has increased to 30.
The Fulbright U.S. Student ETA Program to Brazil has a SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY for an
additional 20 ETA Awards for grants beginning in MARCH 2011. In addition, the
number of ETA grants for Brazil for March 2012 has increased to
30.
Applicants who are available to begin a grant in March 2011 (e.g.,
spring 2011 graduating seniors will not be eligible) and wish to be considered
for the Brazil ETA March 2011 awards must select this option from the dropdown
menu in Question 3, Special Opportunity, in the Online Application. Candidates
recommended for the Brazil ETA March 2011 Award will be notified by mid-December
2010, with final grant offers made in January 2011.
More than 3,000 alumni and guests celebrated their
reunion from June 3-6 and Dean's Day on June 5, with events on campus and in
venues around New York City.
More than 3,000 alumni and guests celebrated their
reunion from June 3-6 and Dean's Day on June 5, with events on campus and in
venues around New York City.
The Center supports Columbia faculty, lecturers, post-doctoral fellows
and preceptors, representing over twenty departments, who teach in the
Core. This support includes weekly faculty luncheons and pedagogical
seminars, as well as annual conferences, course-wide lectures and other
events. The Center also oversees--and continuously develops--teaching
resources for Core faculty that are available on-line and in its faculty
library. The intellectual leadership for each course is the
responsibility of its Chair, a faculty member with extensive Core
As
the Class of 2010 celebrated Class Day on May 17, the College’s newest alumni
were treated not just to mild temperatures and sunny skies but also to a
rousing call to arms from keynote speaker Benjamin Jealous ’94, NAACP president.
For
the seventh year, the procession included the Alumni Parade of Classes, with 115
alumni from as far back as the Class of 1936 marching with their class banners
to welcome seniors into the alumni community.
As
the Class of 2010 celebrated Class Day on May 17, the College’s newest alumni
were treated not just to mild temperatures and sunny skies but also to a
rousing call to arms from keynote speaker Benjamin Jealous ’94, NAACP president.
“These
are days when we each are called on to be clear about what we want not just for
ourselves, but for the world,” Jealous said shortly before announcing that the
NAACP would be filing a lawsuit with the ACLU to invalidate Arizona’s new
immigration law. “Now is the time for you to decide that you will move this
country always forward and never backward. Now is the time for all of us who
believe in hope, not hate, to speak up and be heard, because change happens
every day, not just during elections.”
Jealous
touched on his suspension from Columbia before launching into a story about his
time as an activist in the South, when college students threatened to lynch
minorities and old white men sometimes sided with the change that was
inevitable. He warned of the need to always be questioning who are your enemies
and who are your friends.
For
the seventh year, the procession included the Alumni Parade of Classes, with 115
alumni from as far back as the Class of 1936 marching with their class banners
to welcome seniors into the alumni community.
Presiding
over her first Class Day, Dean Michele Moody-Adams received a rousing ovation as
she addressed the graduating class. “You dove into this big pond that we call
Columbia College and you did what was required of you not only to stay afloat,
but to swim with assurance and power, and to do so in more than one sense,” she
said, drawing a laugh with her reference to Columbia’s famous swim test. She
quoted from John Dewey, who said, “Education is not preparation for life,
education is life itself,” and urged the graduates to remain lifelong learners.
Moody-Adams
also referred to John Stuart Mill, who wrote that truly happy people always
have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. “Now,
that object might be the happiness of others, it might be the improvement of
mankind, it might be some other art or pursuit, as Mill says, ‘followed not as
a means but as itself an ideal end,’ ” she said. “Aiming at something else,
Mill concludes, we will thus find happiness by the way. But now it’s your turn.
You must find something in life that takes you outside of yourself, something
that provides a goal far richer and more compelling than the fleeting pleasure
of the moment. Your Columbia College education has taught you just how to find
such a goal, and its value in this regard may mean more to you in the future
than it already means today.”
Adam
Bulkley ’10, Senior Fund chair and recipient of the 2010 Alumni Association
Achievement Award, announced that a record 92.7 percent of seniors had donated
$18,628 this year, and that surpassing the participation goal of 91 percent
triggered a gift of $50,000 from Charles Santoro ’82. Bulkley, accompanied by
the nine Senior Fund vice-chairs, presented Moody-Adams with a scroll bearing
the names of the 945 seniors who contributed.
While
the weather smiled on the College’s Class Day on May 17, it wasn’t as happy the
following day at University Commencement, where the sea of light blue in the
center of campus was somewhat obscured by waves of umbrellas.
President
Lee C. Bollinger addressed the crowd, which did not seem to mind the drizzle,
and College graduates tossed replica apples into the air, symbolizing the Core
Curriculum.
Tania O'Conor, CC'10, was recently awarded the Ministry of Education
Huayu Scholarship to study Chinese in Taiwan starting in September.
This program aims to contribute to a greater understanding and
appreciation of Taiwan's culture and to promote friendship between
Taiwan and countries around the world.
