Summer 2015
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Campus News
CLASS OF 2019: The College and Engineering admitted 2,228 students into the Class of 2019 — an admissions rate of 6.1 percent, down from last year’s rate of 6.94 percent and the lowest in Columbia history. The group hails from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and 76 countries. A total of 36,250 applications were received by the two undergraduate schools, including 3,373 early decision applications. The latter was a 2.3 percent increase over last year and the largest early decision applicant pool in Columbia history.
BERICK CENTER: Columbia’s Center for Student Advising has been renamed the James H. and Christine Turk Berick Center for Student Advising in recognition of the couple’s dedication to and support for the University. James H. Berick ’55, a retired partner with Squire, Patton & Boggs in Cleveland, received a John Jay Award for distinguished professional achievement in 1999 and is an emeritus member of the Board of Visitors, on which he served 1981–87, 1990–96 and 2010–14. The center is located on the fourth floor of Alfred Lerner Hall, a fitting connection given Berick was a close friend of and adviser to the late Alfred Lerner ’55. The center serves all undergraduates in the College and Engineering. The formal dedication took place on May 28.
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR: Michael W. Doyle, an expert on democracy, has been appointed a University Professor, Columbia’s top faculty rank and highest academic honor. Doyle joined the faculty in 2003 as the Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy, a threefold appointment among the Law School, SIPA and the Department of Political Science. Co-director of the Law School’s Center on Global Governance, his research interests include international relations theory, international law and international history; civil wars and international peace-building; and the United Nations.
Doyle, who also directs Columbia’s Global Policy Initiative, was from 2001 to 2003 assistant secretary-general of the UN and special adviser for policy planning. He also chaired the UN Democracy Fund, which promotes grassroots democratization around the world, from 2006 to 2013.
Doyle previously taught at Johns Hopkins, Princeton and the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.