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Jason Everman has cultivated a life of adventure. In 1987, Everman, then a commercial fisherman off the coast of Alaska, quit his job and moved to Seattle where he made his mark in the music scene, becoming the second guitarist for the band Nirvana, with whom he recorded and toured the country to promote their Bleach album.
GS has always been a haven for military veterans and retired dancers and performing artists, yet in recent years it has also become a switchyard for entrepreneurs with an intellectual bent.
Before enrolling at the School of General Studies in 2002, the now-attorney was a high school dropout and troubled teen. After a life-altering experience, he sought help, earned his high school diploma at The John Dewey Academy, and found a new path.
GS student Carmen Ervin is one of just five undergraduate Columbia students recently awarded a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and the first to be selected from the School of General Studies. Ervin, who had always dreamed of a career in academia, was not sure it was a realistic goal given that she had started completing her undergraduate degree requirements later than traditionally-aged college students.
Ariel Beery ’05, CEO of MobileOCT, recently won $100K in the Elevator World Tour, which gives Israeli startups the opportunity to deliver an elevator pitch to investors in Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Center.
Seeds of Africa is launching its Dream School Campaign in support of the new school construction project in Adama, Ethiopia. The Dream School will be an academy that meets the highest international standards, preparing students to succeed in high school, college, and beyond.
In honor of Veterans Day, the School of General Studies celebrates the service of U.S. military veterans in a variety of events leading up to and on Veterans Day, including sponsoring a float representing GS in the New York City Veterans Day Parade.
Around the world, Columbians came together on October 29, 2014 to give back and pay it forward on Giving Day, raising a record-breaking $250,779 for the School of General Studies.
More than 100 guests gathered to celebrate the induction of 42 students into the Honor Society of the School of General Studies at its Fall 2014 Induction Ceremony on Tuesday, September 30 in Buell Hall's East Gallery. Fewer than five percent of GS students are inducted into the Honor Society.
Alicia Graf Mack ’03, recipient of the 2008 Columbia University Medal of Excellence, recently spoke with the Columbia Daily Spectator about her dance career and Columbia's influence on her life.
At age 90, Miriam Kartch '70GS, '77GSAS, '80GSAS recounts her "several lives."
Neil Shahrestani ’11 was recently interviewed on CNBC to discuss stocks for biotech companies that are working on drugs to fight the Ebola virus.
On Monday, August 25, 2014 the School of General Studies welcomed more than 486 new students at New Student Orientation.
GS alumna and Special Advisor to Columbia University President Bollinger Susan K. Feagin '74 was recently awarded the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s E. Burr Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.
GS alumni, alongside several fellow Columbians, recently founded an artist space and printmaking workshop called Shoestring Press in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.