Columbia

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9/13/19
  

  Fake Citations Kill Historian's Career

  Charles Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences at Columbia University, plagiarized parts of his award-winning book on North Korea.

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• SOURCE: Columbia Spectator
  4/11/19
  

  A Professor Was Accused of Sexual Misconduct. Why is he Still on Campus?

  Women speak up. A tenured professor is accused of sexual misconduct. Who does the University protect?

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• SOURCE: Columbia Spectator
  2/25/19
  

  How 4 faculty helped create Columbia’s first African American and African Diaspora studies department

  After decades of activism surrounding the University’s lack of dedicated scholarship to issues of race and ethnicity, Columbia approved its first African American and African Diaspora studies department last fall.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12-11-18
  

  Columbia student goes on racist tirade at fellow students

  A Columbia University student shouted that “white people are the best thing that ever happened to the world” on Sunday evening during a racist tirade in front of students of color, who caught the rant on video.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-22-18
  

  25 Years After Escobar’s Death, Medellín Struggles to Demolish a Legend

  If the Columbian city cannot bury the memory of the drug lord Pablo Escobar, it at least wants to control how and where his story gets told.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  

  Columbia Set to Commemorate Rebellion of 1968

  Twitter feed, book, walking tour, panel discussion look back at student occupation and protest that ended in hundreds of arrests.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  12-19-17
  

  The Father of Modern Libraries Was a Serial Sexual Harasser

  Melvil Dewey is remembered today as an innovator who ushered American librarianship into the modern age, but his pattern of sexual harassment was so egregious that women dared to speak out against it, at a time when women were harshly judged for reporting sexual harassment.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-18-17
  

  Columbia Professor Retires in Settlement of Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

  Dr. William V. Harris, a renowned Greco-Roman historian, was accused of harassing grad students.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-8-17
  

  At Columbia, Three Women, 30 Years and a Pattern of Harassment

  NYT details the complaints against Greco-Roman historian William V. Harris.

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• SOURCE: Law firm of Sanford Heisler Sharp (Press Release)
  10-31-17
  

  Columbia’s William V. Harris, age 70, withdraws from teaching following sex harassment claims

  "In the wake of a lawsuit alleging that tenured professor William V. Harris sexually harassed a female graduate student, Columbia University yesterday announced that Harris was withdrawing from teaching and all other student-related activities.”

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• SOURCE: Yale Daily News
  1-25-17
  

  Yale's LGBT historian George Chauncey moving to Columbia

  “I think [Chauncey] was recruited as the leader of gay history in America, and he departs, still, as that leader.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-23-17
  

  Columbia Unearths Its Ties to Slavery

  “People still associate slavery with the South, but it was also a Northern phenomenon,” Eric Foner, the Columbia historian who wrote the report, said in an interview.

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• SOURCE: The way of improvement leads home
  12-15-16
  

  Columbia’s Mark Lilla Strikes Again

  by John Fea

  In an interview with the Chronicle of Higher Ed he says:  "Diversity as a social goal and aim of social reform is an excellent thing. But identity politics today isn’t about group belonging; it’s about personal identity."

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• SOURCE: Columbia Spectator
  10-18-16
  

  New Columbia class aims to contextualize data in history, society

  Columbia will offer a new course on how to interpret and evaluate the impact of data next semester in the hopes of facilitating greater understanding of how data is used.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9-26-16
  

  A team of science historians are attempting to re-create recipes from sixteenth-century alchemy texts

  The Making and Knowing Lab is run by Columbia’s Center for Science and Society.

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• SOURCE: Columbia Spectator
  11-15-15
  

  Columbia professor Susan Pedersen wins prize for history of the League of Nations

  She won a $75,000 prize for her book, “The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire.”

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• SOURCE: History channel
  8-3-15
  

  NASA Displays Challenger and Columbia Wreckage

  This summer, pieces of the wreckage as well as personal effects of the 14 astronauts killed aboard the two doomed shuttles are on display for the first time, as part of a new permanent memorial at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

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• SOURCE: Columbia University
  10-23-14 (accessed)
  

  Columbia historian Eric Foner is giving his lectures to the public -- and to posterity — through a free MOOC.

  "Like any theatrical production, a lecture is not forever. You perform, and it’s gone. At some point I realized that I wanted to preserve a little bit of this.”

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• SOURCE: Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
  5-22-14
  

  Two African-American Scholars Join Ranks of Deans

  Dr. Jonathan Holloway and Dr. Alondra Nelson have been appointed deans at Columbia and Yale University.