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Columbia University’s rich arts programming and educational offerings have drawn arts students, visiting artists, and audiences from around the world. Schools and programs across campus are taking Columbia into the forefront of artistic innovation in many ways.
Columbia University offers one of the largest and most diverse athletics programs in the nation, with 29 men’s and women’s varsity teams competing at the highest intercollegiate level, NCAA Division I. Gifts from alumni, parents, and friends are critical for Columbia to continue to develop athletics programs on a par with the University’s outstanding academics.
The College of Dental Medicine aims to help the most talented students flourish, attract and retain internationally-known faculty, renovate clinical care facilities, transform the future of oral health through research, and help the College respond to the most pressing needs of students, faculty, and patients.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S) is one of the preeminent medical schools in the United States. The College’s legacy of superb education and training is enhanced and integrated with the sponsorship of leading-edge basic, clinical, and translational research, and the provision of outstanding patient care. Our benefactors are truly our partners in the advancement of medical education, scientific discovery, and new approaches to improve the health of our patients.
Business leaders today need to think on their feet, assimilate data quickly, seize opportunities, and understand and manage risk. An outstanding business school education must develop visionaries through a rigorous academic experience that successfully bridges theory and practice. Columbia Business School is poised to become the front-runner in this charge, starting with some natural advantages: cutting-edge faculty research, a focus on experiential learning, a powerful alumni network, and a location in the city of New York.
Columbia College is the Ivy League school on Broadway. As a small College in a large research university, it offers a wide range of majors, a nationally known Core Curriculum, an international city as an extended classroom, and a residential experience designed to enable students to learn extensively from each other. Assisted by its need-blind admissions and full-need financial aid policies, the College enrolls one of the most diverse student bodies among its peers. Since 1754, Columbia’s original school has been graduating students who are recognized for their independent voices, creative imaginations, civic concerns, leadership capacities, urban expertise, and adaptable skills. Through Campaign gifts supporting financial aid, student programs, and faculty projects, donors will renew that tradition for generations to come.
Since 1858, Columbia Law School graduates have provided worldwide leadership—as heads of state, corporate counselors, academics, judges, and businesspeople. New York is an essential source of the School’s intellectual firepower, global vision, and pragmatic instincts, and affords unparalleled opportunities to prepare students for diverse careers.
Generous alumni and friends enable the Law School to admit the best students, recruit and retain the most distinguished scholars, and increase the endowment, ensuring the School’ls future as one of the world’s preeminent law schools.
Since its inception in 1892, Columbia University School of Nursing has been a national and international model of excellence in health care—in education, research, and clinical care. Today the School faces critical challenges. With the generosity of alumni and friends, Nursing will continue to advance the quality of health care by improving the School’s physical space, strengthening its financial aid program, and attracting and retaining top faculty members.
The School of Social Work is the United States’ oldest school of its kind—and one of its most innovative. Here faculty and students draw on a long history of pursuing interdisciplinary perspectives, unprecedented research, and community engagement—all needed now more than ever. Help fund dynamic programs with local, national, and global reach; significantly grow financial aid to attract the brightest and most diverse students; and enhance resources to retain the best scholars, educators, and researchers.
The world’s leading center for the integrated study of Earth, its environment, and society, the Earth Institute has harnessed the vast intellectual power of Columbia University’s faculty since 1996 to create cross-disciplinary collaborations addressing the world’s most complex economic, health, and environmental challenges.
Generous private support enables the Institute to continue to launch bold initiatives around the world that respond to the challenges of sustainable development and to develop pioneering educational programs dedicated to training tomorrow’s leaders.
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science offers broad-based instruction within a major research university. Its programs, which are among the nation's oldest and most influential, embrace innovative approaches, including computer-assisted design, "smart" materials, and collaborations. Contributions to The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science ensure that the benefits of a Columbia education endure for generations to come.
Developing new forms of professional, scholarly, technical, artistic, and ethical practice, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation encourages all the disciplines devoted to the built environment to think differently. Help GSAPP transform the built environment by growing its faculty and recruiting the best students, advancing research in the field through interdisciplinary activities, and serving as the locus of professional debate in New York City through lectures, exhibitions, publications, and events.
GSAS is a hub of discovery across the disciplines, preparing graduate students for lifelong success in many careers and enhancing undergraduate education throughout campus. The support of alumni and friends for fellowships, the Teaching Center, and other critical initiatives will help ensure that some of the most talented students in the world continue to acquire the expertise and habits of mind essential for leadership, within academia and beyond.
The history of journalism education in universities began with Joseph Pulitzer’s visionary gift to Columbia in 1903, which led to the opening of Columbia’s Journalism School in 1912. Since then hundreds of American universities have opened schools of journalism, but Columbia remains the best known school in the world.
Through The Columbia Campaign, alumni and friends enable the School to continue to lead the field of journalism education, diversify the student body in every way, and help the dramatically changing profession of journalism meet its potential while maintaining its standards of honest, ethical reporting.
University Libraries and Information Services represent the educational, scholarly, and intellectual convergence of the entire Columbia community. Continuing to build world-class collections, the Libraries support the work of students and faculty across all disciplines. The twenty-five library facilities are hubs of learning and research activity. As new technologies revolutionize the ways information is created, communicated, used, and preserved, the support of alumni and friends helps ensure that Libraries and Information Services deliver innovative resources across the campus and around the world.
For over 85 years, the Mailman School of Public Health has been a leader in the field. Today, the School confronts critical issues such as infectious and environmental disease, health care for the uninsured, prevention of violence and teen pregnancy, preparedness for natural and human-made disasters, and treatment for mothers and children with HIV/AIDS in resource-poor countries. In addition to expanding student financial aid, faculty development, and programs, the School also needs to create facilities that match the extraordinary caliber of its departments, centers and programs.
Gifts to Columbia’s School of General Studies help solidify its preeminence as one of the nation’s most innovative educational enterprises, a college designed specifically to meet the needs of nontraditional students. Through the generosity of alumni and friends, GS can continue to build its endowment for long-term stability and growth, serve the immediate needs of its outstanding students and faculty, and strengthen financial aid as well as other programs that greatly enhance academic life.
For over sixty years, the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) has been dedicated to educating students about the complex forces that shape today’s world. Vital to SIPA’s education are recruiting deserving students, sustaining faculty research, and cultivating policy dialogue. As scholars, SIPA’s faculty, students and alumni work to understand the world. As practitioners, they act to change it.
