An Agenda for the Future
The Task Force on Undergraduate Education was established by PrezBo in October 2006 for the purposes of reviewing the structure and curricula of the university's three undergraduate schools: Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the School of General Studies.
Since its inception, the Task Force, which reports to the University Senate, has contemplated a closer integration of CC and GS[1], a 10-20 percent increase in the size of the undergraduate population coupled with the construction of a new dormitory on 115th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive.[2], and an overhaul of the Major Cultures requirement.[3]
Of these proposals, the University began implementing its planned reforms of Major Cultures following the 2007 hunger strike, and increased the undergraduate enrollment by 50 students for the class of 2013 in response to the 2008 financial crisis. Plans for the new dormitory were scrapped despite having a site to build on due to a lack of gift funding.
External links
- President's Five Year Report: Task Force on Undergraduate Education
- ECFAS Faculty Forum on undergraduate education December 2007
- Minutes Meeting of the Faculty of the Arts & Sciences November 13, 2007
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