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[[Image:PhiloClassSizeExpansionDebate1996.jpg|thumb|160x|Students didn't think this was such a great idea.]]
'''Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience at Columbia''' was a report issued by the administration in February of [[1996]] describing planned changes and enhancements to [[Columbia College]] as part of then-President [[George Rupp]]'s avowed goal to place the College at the center of the University. Of course "enhancements" is a euphemism for increasing enrollment in the College from 3,500 to 4,000 over a 5 year period. This echoed a similar report issued by faculty 35 years earlier in 1960 at the direction of then-Dean [[John Gorham Palfrey]].

The general findings presented in the report were initially presented before the Executive Committee and Chairs of the [[Arts and Sciences]] on December 19, [[1995]]. A request for a written report with greater detail resulted in this report 2 months later. 

Over 13 years later Columbia would release another report on undergraduate education, "An Agenda for the Future", the product of the [[Task Force on Undergraduate Education]], the centerpiece of which was to once again call for the expansion of Columbia College's enrollment. In 2011, undergraduate education would be a central issue in the [[McKinsey Arts and Sciences Report]].

==External links==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss16/record2116.30.html Text of Provost Jonathan Cole's Letter to the Columbia Community on the report]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss16/record2116.31.html Text of Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience with accompanying Tables and Figures]

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