After Office Hours

What will Obama say?

By Robert Y. Shapiro
Apr 26 09:17 pm ET

Obama's upcoming commencement speech at Barnard has the potential to be historical.

On the usefulness of maxims

By Mikael Hornqvist
Apr 19 06:14 pm ET

Approaching the maxim in a particular context can create its use.

Beyond multicultural, beyond non-western: toward a true global core

By Rachel E. Chung
Apr 12 09:24 pm ET

A change not only in our Global Core but in our global thinking is essential.

Against postfeminism

By Rosalind C. Morris
Apr 5 05:15 pm ET

What needs to happen before gender equality can happen.

A contemporary (view of) civilization

By Annie Rudd
Mar 22 07:42 pm ET

In defense of CC discussions that wander a bit off-topic.

A crisis of values

By Roderick Cooke
Mar 1 10:13 pm ET

Whether pursuing a degree for prestige or education, we should value our graduate instructors.

Whither coeducation?

By Julie Crawford
Feb 23 07:34 pm ET

Professor Julie Crawford discusses faculty diversity through the lens of coeducation.

Teaching and research at Columbia

By Carlos Alonso
Feb 16 07:28 pm ET

See past a dichotomy of undergraduate vs. graduate divisions.

How Ron Paul rocked our family

By Jo Ann Cavallo
Feb 9 06:49 pm ET

Professor Jo Ann Cavallo discusses how Ron Paul impacted her life.

The dilemma of grades

By Merry Yue Cai
Feb 2 06:32 pm ET

Columbia students should focus on opportunities for knowledge, not just grades.

Dispatch from the in-between

By Ilana Manaster
Jan 26 06:51 pm ET

University Writing instructor Ilana Manaster on being both a professor and a student.

Reflections of self and labor

By Gary Y. Okihiro
Jan 19 06:22 pm ET

Professor Gary Okihiro on how learning African history was his tool to fight oppression.

Reflections on Frontiers of Science

By David Kagan
Dec 8 06:57 pm ET

Frontiers of Science allows all of us to critically evaluate science, allowing us to question the experts.

Democratizing classical music

By Yoshiaki Onishi
Dec 1 07:24 pm ET

Music should not just be about the conductor but about the entire orchestra.

A call for civil discourse

By Judith S. Jacobson
Oct 27 07:27 pm ET

There is a distinct line with discussions about Israel between engaging in civil discourse and ethnic hatred.

Reflect on the death penalty

By J. Paul Martin
Sep 22 10:36 pm ET

We need to reshape the way our culture looks at death penalty.

Professor anarchist

By Thai Jones
Sep 8 10:12 pm ET

Columbia's history has deep roots in the revolutionary.

Let the recreational athletes play

By Michael Hogan
Apr 28 10:31 pm ET

Intercollegiate athletics should not monopolize our gym facilities.

Celebrate the earth

By Ruth Defries
Apr 21 09:12 pm ET

Environmental issues were less complicated back in the day.

An open letter to President Bollinger

By Rosalind Morris
Apr 7 10:14 pm ET

Columbia should be free from military affiliation.

Cheating and Dante's hell

By Christia Mercer
Mar 31 10:11 pm ET

We need to have open conversations about academic dishonesty.

Reharmonizing Japan

By Yoshiaki Onishi
Mar 24 06:43 pm ET

What Beethoven can teach us about starting anew.

Learning from Sisqo

By David O'Connell
Feb 24 07:53 pm ET

What can pop culture teach us about political science?

Fewer is more

By David Helfand
Feb 17 08:45 pm ET

A degree is not the same thing as an education.

Don't suffer in private

By Nancy Workman
Feb 10 10:54 pm ET

Literature Humanities can help us understand personal suffering.

C.U. ink

By James Uden
Feb 3 07:36 pm ET

What are your professors hiding?

Earning our equality

By Gary Y. Okihiro
Jan 27 08:29 pm ET

Revoking the Fourteenth Amendment would be a step backwards in the fight for civil rights.

Breaking teacher's block

By David Sable
Jan 20 08:31 pm ET

Teaching can be just as challenging as learning.

Social superficiality

By Melissa Schwartzberg
Dec 9 10:52 pm ET

The Social Experiment brought out the worst in our internet communications.

Shame leads to knowledge

By Deborah A. Martinsen
Dec 2 09:34 pm ET

Shame, though painful, offers the key to self-understanding.

The world of virtual warcraft

By Achille Varzi
Nov 18 09:28 pm ET

Let violence keep its rightful place—in videogames.

Learn one from the Gipper: What the Reagan presidency can teach Barack Obama

By David O'Connell
Nov 4 07:59 pm ET

There's still time for the president to redeem his work in the White House if he takes a page from Reagan's book.

True globalization, true diversity

By William Theodore de Bary
Oct 28 09:43 pm ET

Emphasizing diversity at the expense of the Global Core.

Looking at violence in Mexico with clear eyes

By Pablo Piccato
Oct 21 11:04 pm ET

Ignoring the violence in Mexico violates human rights.

The new Jewish mission

By Todd Gitlin
Oct 14 10:46 pm ET

Feeling the shock-waves from Israel.

Good and bad ways to globalize Columbia

By Jagdish Bhagwati
Oct 7 09:33 pm ET

Why and how Columbia should globalize.

Picking a major? Just say no.

By David. J. Helfand
Sep 30 10:57 pm ET

Professor David Helfand argues for the elimination of majors.

I am, therefore I think

By Robert Pollack
Sep 16 09:22 pm ET

Professor Robert Pollack shows how without moral boundaries, knowledge won't get you far.

Lit Hum and the examined life

By Christia Mercer
Sep 9 10:46 pm ET

The new Lit Hum chair describes what Plato and a website have to say on a life worth living.

My journey to the University Senate in ’68

By Theodore de Bary
Apr 22 08:32 pm ET

The '68 occupation of Low Library convinced me that only a Senate representative of all students as well as faculty could speak for the Columbia community as a whole in defending the essential rights and functions of the university.

Comprehensive immigration reform

By Mae Ngai
Apr 15 08:14 pm ET

We should instead distribute visas to countries in proportion to the relative size of their population and other standards that consider fairness from a substantive, not merely formal, perspective.

Comprehensive immigration reform

By Mae Ngai
Apr 15 08:14 pm ET

Nicolas Sarkozy addresses Columbia

By Shanny L. Peer
Apr 1 08:20 pm ET

President Sarkozy emphasized repeatedly the need for the United States to listen, to hear, and to debate with others, in a speech intended for an audience broader than the 400 Columbia students and faculty who were lucky enough to get a seat in Low Library.

An unsettling silence

By Todd Gitlin
Mar 25 08:45 pm ET

Given how consequential the bill signed Tuesday by President Obama may be, it’s striking to me how muted the campus response is.

Read all about it! (But how?)

By Richard Wald
Mar 4 08:45 pm ET

And as our culture changes, so too will the news organizations that live within it.

Community Impact: Equal Access to Education

By Kathleen Smith
Feb 25 10:13 pm ET

If we believe in education as one of the most powerful forces of a democracy, and if we unite as students and as teachers in that belief, we must then be committed to its dissemination to all levels of society.

Don’t wait, don’t stall

By Robert McCaughey
Feb 18 09:15 pm ET

I am not here calling for a clearing out of Earl Hall, still less institutional suicide, only for some recognition that current university policies with respect to gay rights are inconsistent.

Sehgal, school, surprises

By Anne Higonnet
Feb 11 09:36 pm ET

For the rest of your life, you will remember how going to college in New York City meant, among so many other things, becoming a work of art.

An education in inequality

By Shamus Khan
Feb 4 09:57 pm ET

They may claim otherwise, but colleges are “need blind” in the worst possible way. They are ambivalent to the disadvantages of poverty.