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Office of the Provost welcomed more than 300 students, faculty, mentors, and community members from Columbia and across the country to Lerner Auditorium for the annual Columbia University Pathway Programs (CUPP) Symposium.

aiX Faculty Fellows Program Wraps a Strong First Year of Innovation and Faculty Engagement

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These ranges should be used in determining the salaries for officers of research throughout the University for the 2026-2027 academic year.

The Office of the Provost is launching a new designation, Designated Academic Colleague (DAC), to support scholarly engagement between Columbia personnel and their non-Columbia colleagues in the field.

Columbia University now requires all new full-time and part-time academic hires to complete a pre-hire attestation disclosing any prior discriminatory, harassing, retaliatory, or other forms of misconduct.

These ranges should be used in determining the salaries for officers of research throughout the University for the 2025-2026 academic year.

The U.S. Department of Labor has revised the Fair Labor Standards Act to raise the minimum salary threshold for overtime eligibility, affecting Columbia University and other employers nationwide, with increases to $844 per week starting July 1, 2024, and $1,128 per week starting January 1, 2025.

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In response to rising COVID-19 rates in New York, Columbia has reduced the size of non-academic gatherings and initiated travel-related “departure” SARS-CoV-2 testing. The University has also appointed a vaccine task force.

As COVID-19 becomes more pervasive, we urge you to redouble efforts to help prevent the spread of the virus.

 

Please join members of the President’s Advisory Task Force on COVID-19 for a virtual forum for faculty and employees.

In this time of heightened stress, students confront significant challenges. We offer suggestions, drawn from the insights of the University’s mental health working group, and highlight resources you can call on to support students.

This July, faculty and administrators participated in the Mini-Institute on Addressing Anti-Black Racism entitled, “Moving beyond Symbols and Performance: A Radical Reimagining of Antiracist Selves and Institutions.” Augustin Chaintreau, Associate Professor of Computer Science, was a participant in the summer pilot, and reflects on his experience.

We write with significant updates about the month ahead of us, addressing travel, quarantine, and campus safety at a time of year when many traditionally visit loved ones.  

We are writing to report on current circumstances and to preview the planning process that has begun for the spring term.

Members of the President’s Advisory Task Force on COVID-19 spoke at at a virtual forum for faculty, researchers, and staff on August 26, 2020. Watch the video.

 

Fall term is just around the corner. Members of our community are ask to comply with a series of obligations as they rejoin life on campus. 

In response to regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Education in May, Columbia has updated gender-based misconduct policies for students, faculty, and staff.

Temporary guidelines have been established to pay students who may be unable to return to campus from abroad due to COVID-19 related disruptions.  

I am writing to salute the overwhelming ratification of the agreement reached with Columbia Postdoctoral Workers (CPW-UAW).

With only some six weeks ahead of us before the fall term, we are writing to summarize how the University is acting to make Columbia as safe as possible with an increasing level of campus density.

Watch video from the Faculty Forum on Renewing the Campus on Tuesday, July 14. The event focused on facilities and public health issues and featured members of the President’s Advisory Task Force on COVID-19.

 

Faculty are invited to a virtual panel with members of the President’s Advisory Task Force on COVID-19 on Tuesday, July 14.