After last week’s CCSC town hall featuring Scott Wright – the Executive Vice President of Student and Administrative Services – the 2015 class council began following up on one issue of particular importance: the Lerner package center. This year, Mail Services offered extended hours at the package center in an effort to try to reduce the typical long lines. However, they found that students still ended up coming to pick

Financial Aid has always been a sore topic of conversation. Dealing with money and financial planning is stressful, and many students were voicing concerns about the advising and processing systems of the Financial Aid office at our school. Columbia Student Advising undertook a massive, and effective, reform last year in response to student feedback. Student council believed it was time for the Financial Aid Office to undergo a similar holistic

Hey Columbia College! Here’s an edited press release about a new initiative recently started by the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) of the University Senate that will transparently gather information about Morningside student space needs in the light of the development of the Manhattanville campus: The Student Affairs Committee of the Columbia University Senate has launched the Morningside Student Space Initiative (MSSI). The current phase of the initiative focuses on four Morningside

Hey Columbia College! Over the last few weeks, council members have collected a lot of feedback from the student body and a lot of them had to do with Dining Services. I met with Vicki Dunn, the Head of Dining Services, to discuss some of these issues. Before I launch into the issues we discussed, I just want to reiterate how easy it is to make your experience in dining

The 2015 class council has been working with Dining Services to come up with a compromise to keep Blue Java Butler Cafe available to students studying in the library late at night. At the last Dining Advisory meeting, Dining agreed to allow students to choose to extend Blue Java Butler Cafe hours until 2 am on Monday through Thursday in exchange for closing Cafe 212 at 8 pm. Currently, Butler

Hey there Columbia College! For my first update, I decided to summarize some of my the main goals for this semester. This list will probably grow as the semester goes by and I receive more student input – what I have as of right now are projects initially discussed in Policy last semester that I intend to fully implement this year. Here it goes: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY – There has been

Big shout out to your senator, Kenny Durell. for his work on opening more space for students! Butler will add six of the ten graduate reading rooms on the fifth and sixth floors of the library to the 24-hour schedule from 12/13 to 12/23, adding 150 additional study seats for use by their late night and overnight users. The extra space is fantastic but please remember that sleep will always

Student Services Representative Christina Fan recently attended meetings for both the Lerner Hall and Dining Advisory Committees. Here are some of the issues that were discussed.  If you have any questions, please contact Christina at ccf2131@columbia.edu Lerner Advisory Meeting:  As per ESC’s initiative, Lerner is looking into putting in a game room and setting up a rentable videogame system. This is still in its beginning stages as there will have

Hey Columbia! I’m Christina Fan, one of the two Student Services Representatives of CCSC. I sit in on Dining Advisory Hall Meetings and here’s a quick update on what Columbia Dining Services have been up to. First and foremost, REGISTRATION FOR THE THANKSGIVING MEAL HAS BEGUN. Register fast because it’s first come first serve. Go to http://dining-sas.webservices.lamptest.columbia.edu/thanksgiving-dinner-signup-form and complete your registration form. The staff at Columbia Dining Services have been

The CCSC Elections Board is looking for students to join the board and help organize and administer all of the council’s elections. The application is here: Elections Board APP. The board is currently headed by Norita Mengu and is responsible for the execution of all election-related activities.  This includes the organization of candidates and parties, the enforcement of elections rules, campus publicity, and candidate debates.  The elections board plays a very