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So many big things happened in 2022 that it is hard to keep track of everything that has taken place in the last month, let alone the whole year. Columbians have weighed in on everything from huge Supreme Court cases to Russia’s war on Ukraine, on the national and international stage, to new campus buildings, […]
Columbia and New York University, he said, tend to place large numbers of law school graduates into white-shoe law firms, though so do institutions like the Howard University School of Law. In similar fashion, “elite employment outcomes are pretty closely tracked with the school you’ve attended,” Professor Muller said. Some deans of law schools below […]
Columbia University disclosed Friday that it had reported faulty data on class size and faculty credentials to a publication that produces widely known college rankings — errors that it attributed to a reliance on “outdated and/or incorrect methodologies.” With the acknowledgment of the embarrassing missteps, the Ivy League university in New York expressed contrition over […]
History says that the first Black settlers arrived in British Columbia in April 1858, 24 years after the Abolition of Slavery Act, however, Black Canadian history dates back to the 1600s. Many immigrants would come from around the world to British Columbia, Canada, and prosper. Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was one of them. Having helped fight […]
01 July 2022 KATHRYN POST RNS In 2018, the incoming class at Columbia Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian Church (USA) seminary in the tree-lined suburbs of Atlanta, was 47 per cent white and 16 per cent Black. Just three years later, a 2021 admissions brochure advertised an incoming class that was more than 64 per cent […]
Placeholder while article actions load Columbia University will skip the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges this year, university officials announced, as they review data that had been questioned by a professor at the school. “Columbia leaders take these questions seriously, and we immediately embarked on a review of our data collection and […]
Columbia University will not participate in the next U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges across the country, after a Columbia math professor questioned the accuracy of the data that secured its No. 2 spot in the influential rankings, the university announced on Thursday night. The deadline to submit data for the rankings is […]
This article is published through a collaboration between States Newsroom and Bolts. WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, about 10 men detained in the Young Men Emerging unit in the Washington, D.C., jail sat around a TV to watch the Democratic candidates for mayor debate issues including affordable housing and gun violence. “It was on a communal TV, and […]
New research modeling smoke from two recent megafires sets the stage for better forecasting of how emissions from these global-scale events will behave and impact temperatures. As huge wildfires become more common under climate change, increased attention has focused on the intensity and duration of their emissions, which rival those of some volcano eruptions. Megafires […]
Ambassador Linda Thomas-GreenfieldU.S. Representative to the United NationsNew York City, New YorkMay 15, 2022 AS DELIVERED Hello, Class of 2022. You look so wonderful out there. Dean Christensen, distinguished alumni, faculty, students, and staff – it’s an honor for me to be here with you today. And I want to thank you, Dean Christensen, for […]