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After serving five years in prison, James Harvey Elliott discovered his passion: prison reform. As he begins his GS journey this fall, his drive to increase access to higher education in the American prison system continues to grow.
On Monday, August 31, 2020, more than 800 incoming School of General Studies (GS) undergraduate and Postbac Premed students along with their guests, GS staff, and Orientation Leaders, convened for the School’s first-ever virtual New Student Welcome event—streamed live on the School’s website—to celebrate the beginning of the fall 2020 semester.
On Thursday, September 3, the following message regarding the Justice and Pandemics Preparedness Academy was sent to all GS students.
The 2020-2021 LHM Board is asking for contributions for their first-ever magazine publication. The magazine seeks to celebrate the collective power of the Latinx community and beyond through the exploration of art, literature, fashion, food, and music. Virtual copies will be sold to fundraise for the Brooklyn non-profit MayDay Space.
Paola Cruz, raised in a small town in the Philippines by her grandmother, moved to New York City on her own at 19. After battling a crippling autoimmune disease and working various odd jobs to support herself, Cruz enrolled at La Guardia Community College. Never having dreamt about attending an Ivy League university as a first-generation, low-income student (FGLI), Cruz was proud to be admitted to GS and awarded a Program for Academic Leadership and Service (PALS) Scholarship. She began her first semester in Fall 2018, and has since become an advocate for other FGLI students like herself and focused on her studies in medicine, literature, and society.
The Office of Admissions and the University Visitors Center are looking for admissions ambassadors/tour guides to represent the nontraditional undergraduate student population at GS, the Dual BA degree programs, as well as the Postbac Premed Program.
Earlier today, Dean Rosen-Metsch sent the following message to GS students regarding the fall 2020 semester.
Columbia University is proud to welcome the Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP) back for the third consecutive year. WSP hosts immersive academic boot camps at America's top colleges and universities for enlisted military veterans who are transitioning from active duty military service to college.
The incoming Fall 2020 class comprises a diverse group of students.
Students are encouraged to access the new Columbia GS Student Success Portal and to view the instructional video on their home screens.
Jarrell Daniels, a sociology undergraduate student who enrolled at GS last fall, began working with the SAFE Lab on the Digital Arrest project over two years ago. Daniels has played an integral role in the project, which aims to address commonly-misunderstood social media use by gang-involved youth, sharing his personal experiences with the criminal justice system while advocating for change in how the digital landscape is used to target black and brown communities.
For the fall 2020 semester, the Columbia University School of General Studies—dedicated to serving nontraditional students and one of three undergraduate colleges at the University—saw a 20% increase in applications, receiving its highest number in over a decade.
Earlier today, Dean Rosen-Metsch sent the following message to GS students regarding the fall 2020 semester.
As Andrew Goulian '19GS was finishing up courses at community college, he noticed that an “alarming” number of people around him were developing opioid use disorders. At Mailman School of Public Health, Goulian currently leads a team of 92 Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) students who served New York-Presbyterian during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.
All School of General Studies offices will close Thursday, July 2 at 2 p.m. and will re-open on Monday, July 6 at 9 a.m.