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CAMPUS BULLETINS

DEDICATION: The formal dedication of the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life will be held on Sunday, April 2. The Center, located on 115th Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive, will be the permanent home of Jewish life at Columbia and Barnard. It is named in honor of Robert Kraft '63.

ALUMNI BULLETINS

JOHN JAY AWARDS: Five noteworthy alumni have been selected to receive John Jay Awards for Distinguished Professional Achievement at a black-tie dinner to be held in Low Memorial Library on Tuesday, March 28. They are Ric Burns '78, Martin S. Kaplan '61, Robert Rosencrans '49, Steven Solender '60, and George L. Van Amson '74.

Burns is a documentary filmmaker best known for the five-part, 10-hour New York: A Documentary Film, which aired on public television this year, and for his work on the Emmy-winning series, The Civil War, which he co-produced and co-wrote. Kaplan, a former president of the Columbia College Alumni Association, is a senior partner in the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr and was secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts during Governor William Weld's first term.

Rosencrans, former chairman of Columbia's Board of Visitors, was an original partner in the Madison Square Garden Network, helped set up Columbia Cable in the Pacific Northwest, and helped organize C-Span. Solender is president and CEO of United Jewish Communities, the newly formed organization overseeing Jewish philanthropies. Van Amson, a principal and senior equities trader at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, is a member of Columbia's Board of Trustees.

Highlighting the John Jay Awards Dinner will be a video presentation by Burns and a musical performance by Elizabeth Paw '00 of the cast of the Broadway hit Miss Saigon. For ticket information, please call the Alumni Office at (212) 870-2288.

THE SURVEY SAYS: By now, members of the Classes of 1980, 1985, 1990 and 1995 should have received a questionnaire for a confidential survey that is being conducted by the University in an effort to gauge how alumni feel about the College experience: how it affected you and how well it met your needs and prepared you for what lay ahead. This survey instrument is also being used by other Ivy and peer institutions, so administrators will be able to place Columbia's results in the context of responses from other universities.

As with any such survey, the more responses that are received from a given class, the more likely the responses are truly representative of the feelings of the overall membership of that class. Therefore, all alumni who received the survey are encouraged to complete it and send it in.

The Columbia coordinator for the project is Marian Pagano, associate provost for planning and institutional research. Alumni with questions about the survey may contact her at 212/854-2473 or by e-mail at mfp3@columbia.edu.

SHOUT: In August 1997, President Clinton signed into law the State Child Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), legislation which made $48 billion available to the states to provide health coverage for uninsured children. In September 1998, the Children's Defense Fund-NY and Columbia University, in partnership with Northern Manhattan community-based organizations, came together to create SHOUT (the Student Health Outreach Project) to make sure that eligible children were getting enrolled in this health insurance program.

SHOUT was launched through the leadership of University Trustee Maureen Cogan (also Vice-Chair of the Children's Defense Fund board) and Provost Jonathan Cole '64, and a generous grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The Children's Defense Fund hired Sarah Katz '97 to coordinate the project. The College and Barnard worked with the Children's Defense Fund to pilot the enrollment campaign for uninsured children.

In its first year, SHOUT students enrolled nearly 200 children in free or low-cost health insurance, and distributed educational materials to more than 50,000 families. The SHOUT model of community-based enrollment is being watched with great interest by New York State and New York City officials. It has been presented at the Children's Defense Fund's national conference in Houston, and before federal officials at the Health Care Finance Administration in Baltimore. The model project is so successful that the Children's Defense Fund is now working to replicate the project at other colleges and universities across New York State and nationally.

This year, SHOUT received an additional grant from the W.K. Kellogg foundation and became an official project at Community Impact. The new funds allowed Community Impact to hire an on campus project coordinator, Connie Lee '97, SIPA '01 to expand the project's efforts. Through SHOUT, student volunteers are trained to serve as outreach and enrollment workers in collaboration with community-based organizations in Washington Heights and Central Harlem. As outreach and enrollment workers, the students work in teams to educate families about the availability of health insurance for their children, and/or screen families to determine eligibility for either Medicaid and Child Health Plus and assist families with enrollment process for either program. This year the project includes 40 volunteers working under the leadership of undergraduate student organizers Jennifer Nelson '00, Ilana Fischer B'01 and Lisa Perlson B'01.

For more information on how to become involved in SHOUT, please call 212-854-5962.

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