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AROUND THE QUADS

Relive the College Experience At Dean’s Day on April 12

By Lisa Palladino

Dean Austin Quigley chatted with Albon Man ’40 after one of last year’s lectures.

Alumni can relive their classroom days and parents can glimpse their children’s College learning experience by attending lectures by some of Columbia’s finest faculty at Dean’s Day 2008 on Saturday, April 12, on campus. Free to students and offered at a nominal cost to alumni and parents, this is one of the Alumni Office’s most popular events.

This year’s program includes sessions centered around beauty and the Core Curriculum; the ecology of Eden; the arts; international perspectives in the humanities; and offerings in the Core. In addition to the outstanding faculty lectures, there will be information sessions hosted by professionals from the Center for Career Education.

Dean Austin Quigley and Columbia College Alumni Association President Brian C. Krisberg ’81 will open the day with a continental breakfast and welcome address in Alfred Lerner Hall’s Roone Arledge Auditorium. The three-lecture series begins with one class in the morning, followed by lunch in Low Rotunda and two lectures in the afternoon. A closing reception follows the last lecture.

University Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, led a popular session last year on “Making Globalization Work.”
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Among the many lecture choices this year are:

• “The Increasing Importance of CC at Columbia Today”

• “The Great Civilized Conversation — Carrying the Core to Asian Colleges”

• “Urban Cultures of Slavery and Freedom: A Case Study from Saint Louis du Senegal”

• “Theatre with a Union Label”

• “Visual Thinking and Colonial Experience: Some Perspectives from Latin America”

Career lecture choices include “Theories of Career Choice,” “Arts as an Organic Model for Career Development” and “Networking in Today’s Age: Adding Online Social Networking to Your Tool Box.”

The Lecture Series fee ($40 for alumni and parents; $25 for Young Alumni in classes 1998–2007 who have made a gift to Columbia College between July 1, 2007, and the time their registration form is received) includes three lectures (one from each series) and the continental breakfast. The fee for students is waived, but registration is required.

Lunch offers open seating by class year and is available to all registered participants at $25 per person for alumni, parents and students. Young Alumni (Classes 1998–2007) who have made a gift to Columbia College between July 1, 2007, and the time their registration form is received will have the luncheon fee waived.

For alumni who can’t make it to campus, the Alumni Office coordinates similar College Days throughout the year, bringing faculty and deans to cities around the country. Upcoming College Days are scheduled for San Francisco on Saturday, March 29, and for Los Angeles on Sunday, March 30.

For further information on Dean’s Day or College Days or to register, please refer to the brochures mailed by the Alumni Office, visit the Alumni Office online events pages (Deans Day or Columbia College Alumni Affairs events for College Days) or contact Mia Gonsalves: 212-870-2744 or gm2156@columbia.edu.

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