Columbia University is proud to welcome the Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP) back for the third consecutive year. WSP hosts immersive academic boot camps at America's top colleges and universities for enlisted military veterans who are transitioning from active duty military service to college.
The incoming Fall 2020 class comprises a diverse group of students.
Jarrell Daniels, a sociology undergraduate student who enrolled at GS last fall, began working with the SAFE Lab on the Digital Arrest project over two years ago. Daniels has played an integral role in the project, which aims to address commonly-misunderstood social media use by gang-involved youth, sharing his personal experiences with the criminal justice system while advocating for change in how the digital landscape is used to target black and brown communities.
For the fall 2020 semester, the Columbia University School of General Studies—dedicated to serving nontraditional students and one of three undergraduate colleges at the University—saw a 20% increase in applications, receiving its highest number in over a decade.
As Andrew Goulian '19GS was finishing up courses at community college, he noticed that an “alarming” number of people around him were developing opioid use disorders. At Mailman School of Public Health, Goulian currently leads a team of 92 Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) students who served New York-Presbyterian during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.
Postbac Premed Program alumnus Ben Oseroff '20, currently a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, recently published an article in Harvard Medical School Review about hospital delirium during COVID-19.
This year’s first ever virtual Reunion Weekend drew more than 300 GS alumni and guests from all over the world together to reconnect, celebrate, and enjoy new and exciting events.
Dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch, Ph.D. co-authored an article in The International Journal of Drug Policy titled, "Syringe Services Program (SSP) Operational Changes During the COVID-19 Global Outbreak."
Kikka Hanazawa ’00 has built a unique career as a fashion investor and non-profit founder. Now, through Fashion Girls for Humanity, an award-winning non-profit humanitarian organization she founded, Hanazawa is making open-source resources available to companies and individuals who want to help during the pandemic by producing personal protective equipment (PPE).
Dean of the Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program, James Colgrove Ph.D., M.P.H., Published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine titled, "The Vaccines for Children Program at 25 — Access, Affordability, and Sustainability."
On Thursday, May 21 and Friday, May 22, The School of General Studies welcomed 100 students from the incoming cohort at the Summer New Student Welcome event.
Joseph Kissane, former Director of Columbia’s Summer Session, former School of General Studies Dean of Students, and a beloved preceptor of English and comparative literature, passed away from COVID-19 on April 19, 2020.