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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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