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CAMPUS
BULLETINS
MOLDING STUDENT LEADERS: Kevin Shollenberger has been
named director of the Office of Student Development and Activities,
which has been reshaped to include advising and funding student
groups, overseeing a programming board and providing executive training
to student leaders. He will report to Chris Colombo, dean
of student affairs.
“The director
and the activities staff will take time with the student groups
and think about how students and events can run most smoothly,”
Colombo told the Columbia Daily Spectator. “His goal will
be to help student groups themselves to be as productive as possible.
“We’re trying
to build the kind of Columbia community spirit that so many people
have said they wanted for so long. That’s going to be a big task,”
added Colombo.
Shallenberg
came to Columbia from the University of Hawaii, where he was director
of leadership development, responsible for helping students develop
skills that would aid them in managing their own organizations.
He also has been closely involved with two national coalitions of
student activities officers.
One of Shallenberg’s
primary projects will be the office’s new leadership institute,
which will provide advice and training to student leaders. “We need
to look at what will make students productive when they leave here,
what will make them successful community members,” said Shallenberg.
WE’RE NO. 10 AGAIN?: In what one dean described as “an annual
source of frustration because they just don’t seem to get it,” Columbia
placed 10th for the second year in a row in U.S. News & World
Report’s annual “Best Colleges” rankings this fall — this despite
a record number of admissions applications and the lowest selectivity
percentage in school history.
Caltech, fourth
a year ago, leapfrogged over co-leaders Harvard, Princeton and Yale
to capture the top ranking this year, aided by changes in how the
magazine compiles its rankings. Harvard was ranked second, MIT third
and Princeton and Yale tied for fourth. Stanford was sixth, with
Duke, Johns Hopkins and Penn tied for seventh, ahead of Columbia.
The magazine
listed seven criteria which went into its rankings: academic reputation
(25 percent), graduation and retention rates (20), faculty resources
(20), student selectivity (15), financial resources (10), alumni
giving (5) and graduation rate performance, or the difference between
anticipated and actual rates of graduation (5).
According to
U.S. News & World Report, Columbia ranked 11th in academic
reputation (as determined by a survey of top officers at peer institutions),
17th in graduation and retention rates, ninth in faculty resources,
seventh in selectivity and 10th in financial resources. Columbia’s
alumni participation rate, listed at 31 percent, ranked 24th, lowest
in the Ivy League. Columbia matched its “anticipated” 90 percent
rate of graduation within a six-year period to rank second among
the schools in the top ten, although many schools which ranked lower
on the overall list finished on the plus side in this category.
It’s worth noting
that the College alone ranks fourth in the nation in selectivity
at 14 percent, behind only Harvard (12), Princeton (13) and Stanford
(13). The magazine ranked Columbia seventh in selectivity because
it also included figures for SEAS.
CLASS PAGES ON THE WEB: College alumni already can visit the
alumni website for information on events, an electronic version
of Columbia College Today and other Columbia information.
Now they can use it to keep in touch with classmates.
This month,
the Alumni Office has set up a Web page for each alumni class (with
group pages for pre-1960 classes). Each page features a bulletin
board where alumni can post news of interest for classmates, as
well as information on class-specific activities, reunions, class
contacts and useful links. To get to your class’s page, click the
“Class Pages” button at the upper left of the alumni website (www.columbia.edu/cu/college/alumni).
Alumni can use
this feature of the website to keep in touch with each other and
with the College. Please e-mail the office at ccalumni@columbia.edu
with suggestions for customizing your class’s page.
HOOPING IT UP OUT WEST: Alumni on the West Coast can see the
Columbia men’s basketball team in person when it competes in the
Stanford Tournament in Palo Alto, Calif. December 29-30. The Lions
will face Davidson College in the second game on Wednesday, December
29, while host Stanford will meet New Hampshire in the opening game.
The winners will meet for the tournament crown the following night,
while the first-round losers will play in a consolation game.
The Columbia
University Alumni Club of Northern California is hosting a cocktail
reception on Tuesday, December 28 at the Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts in San Francisco starting at 6:30 p.m. Also, a reception
is being planned prior to Wednesday night’s game at Maples Pavilion
in Palo Alto, beginning at approximately 7:30 p.m. Both receptions
are being underwritten by the 1961 football team.
For information
on the receptions or if you plan to attend, please contact Michael
Gat ’86 at PMB 212, 650 Castro Street, Apt. 120, Mountain View,
Calif. 94041. You may call him at (650) 245-0929 or e-mail him at
mgat@ix.netcom.com. Tickets to the basketball games may be obtained
through the Columbia athletics department, (212) 854-2546.
TUITION REPORT: Tuition and fees for the 1999-2000 academic
year increased nationally by an average of less than 5 percent over
last year, the lowest rate of increase for the past four years,
according to the College Board. Tuition at Columbia College was
up 3.9 percent, the lowest percentage increase in 15 years.
According to
the College Board, tuition and fees rose an average of 4.6 percent
at four-year private institutions, to $15,380. Tuition at Columbia
College is $24,150.
College Board
President Gaston Caperton said the lower rates of increase are a
“very positive trend for American families.” He added that current
tuition levels must be considered in light of the benefits a college
education yields for individuals and society. “The cost of not going
to college is much higher than the cost of going to college,” he
noted.
TIMES SCHOLARS AT COLUMBIA: Three of the six recipients of The
New York Times 1998-99 College Scholarships are attending Columbia
this year — Mirela Miraj ’03, QiQi Cheng ’03 and Denise
De Las Nueces ’03. The other three winners are attending Harvard,
Oberlin and Yale.
The scholarships
are awarded to New York City students who demonstrate outstanding
academic achievement, community service and a commitment to learning.
In addition, preference is given to students whose parents are not
college graduates.
De Las Nueces
was a participant in Columbia’s Double Discovery Center program.
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