Campus Resources
Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
The office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement promotes and nurtures a vibrant climate of inclusive excellence through creative collaboration with University partners. Its primary focus is on fostering faculty development, diversity, planning and community-building initiatives that will allow faculty to thrive.
Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) partners with faculty, students, and colleagues across the University to support excellence and innovation in teaching and learning. Offerings include an Inclusive Teaching MOOC, the Guide for Inclusive Teaching, and resources for Inclusive Teaching and Learning Online. These resources offer research and evidence-based practices and contain practical, accessible, and usable strategies that instructors can use immediately.
Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action (EOAA)
The Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action (EOAA) works to prevent and respond to discrimination and harassment by developing and implementing policies and procedures that address discrimination, harassment, and gender-based misconduct in accordance with relevant federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws.
Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA)
Multicultural Affairs recognizes that identity, social responsibility, allyship and equity must be addressed at multiple interconnected levels to best support students' various developmental stages. OMA offers workshops that are open to students, faculty, and staff. Multicultural Affairs makes sure that all student concerns are heard and helps students determine what course of action is available to them.
Office of University Life
The Office of University Life is a hub for University-wide student life information and initiatives, and organizes workshops, task forces and working groups with students, faculty and administrators from across the University. The Office of University Life has created a guide called Pronouns at Columbia, which reviews pronouns and contains a glossary of terms.
Office of Work/Life
The Office of Work/Life supports the well-being of Columbia University’s diverse community of faculty, staff, and students in their pursuit of meaningful and productive academic, personal and work lives through a variety of programs and services.
Columbia Health
Columbia Health advances the well-being of the Columbia University community and the personal and academic development of students. For more information, please visit their website. Click here for LGBTQ+ -specific Columbia Health resources.
Ombuds Office
The Ombuds Office is an independent, informal, impartial, and confidential resource for students, faculty, and staff. It provides a safe space to discuss any University related issues or concerns, navigate through Columbia resources, and explore university policies and procedures. The Ombuds Office helps to promote civility, mutual respect and ethical conduct, and to identify ways to prevent disruptive conflict. All members of the University community have the right to consult with the Ombuds Officers.
The Office of the Registrar
The Office of the Registrar allows students to identify a Preferred First and/or Middle Name in addition to their Legal Name. Students may request this service through the University Office of the Registrar.
Columbia Human Resources
CUIMC Human Resources
Columbia Human Resources provides a full range of services, including recruiting, interviewing, placing and guiding employees; maintaining benefits and payroll; mediating conflict; hosting training sessions; and offering learning and development programs. Visit their website for more information on medical benefits and coverage, leaves, eligible dependents, family building benefits including surrogacy and adoption benefits, and tuition programs.
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC):
All staff at CUIMC are invited to join/create an employee resource network. Employee Resource Networks (also known as ERGs, business network groups or affinity groups) are voluntary groups of employees who join together in their workplace based on shared characteristics or life experiences and serve as a resource for members and the organization by fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace aligned with organizational goals. Columbia has an ERG for LGBTQ+ faculty and staff. For more information regarding a particular Employee Resource Network, please contact [email protected].
Alumni Affairs/Columbia PRIDE
Columbia Pride’s mission is to build community among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) and allied alumni of all schools of Columbia University in the City of New York, to foster a safe environment for Columbia’s LGBTQ students, to strengthen the LGBTQ student community, and to deepen the sense of connection between the LGBTQ alumni and student communities, and between these communities and Alma Mater.