Important News Regarding Columbia GS Academic Affairs

Dear colleagues,

It is with immense pride and gratitude that I write to inform you that Victoria Rosner will be leaving the Columbia University School of General Studies following Commencement to assume the role of Dean of NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In her 12 years at Columbia GS, Victoria has had an immeasurable impact on our School and our students—working closely with you, our treasured faculty, students, and staff—and leaves GS in a very strong position as we begin the work of identifying a new Dean of Academic Affairs.

The accomplishments are too many to describe fully in this email but the effect she has had on the lives of our students and alumni is abundantly clear. Her commitment to the core values of Columbia GS, to the ideas of access and equity, helped to create an academic culture within which GS students are welcomed and celebrated for all they bring to the Columbia undergraduate experience. She expanded GS participation in the Columbia Core, created a series of initiatives to increase access to and diversity in STEM education, and built partnerships and programs between GS and many of Columbia’s graduate and professional schools. She has been instrumental in the planning and support of our international dual degree programs and has been a voice for GS across the Arts & Sciences, including her work with the CC-GS Committee on Instruction and her joint leadership of the Directors of Undergraduate Studies. In addition to her role as Dean of Academic Affairs, Victoria served for several years as the Director of our Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program, working closely with our faculty to help these amazing Postbac Premed students apply their prior career and life experiences toward a future in healthcare. All of this was done while maintaining her deep commitment to scholarship, publishing three new books in her field of modernist studies, earning numerous grants and awards, and teaching in the Columbia Department of English.

The common thread through these and other contributions has been Victoria’s unending commitment to GS and our students, a commitment that students at Gallatin will soon experience and from which they will surely benefit. I thank Victoria for her service to GS and look forward to sharing updates in the near future on our search process. In the meantime, please join me in congratulating Dean Victoria Rosner.

All my best,
Lisa