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inFO is a monthly email with news from across Columbia University Facilities and Operations. Check out the October 2023 edition.
The award was received in the “University Renovation” category as part of Learning by Design’s Fall 2023 Architectural Interior Design Awards of Excellence competition which honors innovative and effective projects in K-12 and post-secondary education facilities across the country.
Method Collective, a women-owned, mat-based movement space, has signed a lease with Columbia University to open a new location at Columbia Business School’s Henry R. Kravis Hall, providing a physical home after launching in the adjacent West Harlem Piers Park.
Personal stories, food, and comradery shared in event organized by Equity & Inclusion Council
inFO is a monthly email with news from across Columbia University Facilities and Operations. Check out the September 2023 edition.
Welcome to the start of a new academic year! As you begin to establish your schedules and routines for the new semester, Vice President of Public Safety Gerald Lewis Jr. shares important safety information and available University resources.
On behalf of all of us at University Facilities and Operations, welcome to campus for the 2023-24 academic year. University Facilities and Operations is proud to support and serve our vibrant campus community through a wide range of services to help ensure a safe, beautiful, and functional campus environment.
Henry Clemente, a head cleaner with Facilities and Operations, knows every nook and cranny of the Morningside campus. He shares the spots every newcomer should know.
Summer is a busy time for Facilities and Operations. Although construction occurs throughout the year, the summer allows Facilities and Operations to perform a wide range of campus improvements when the campus is less populated, lessening the impacts to the greater campus community.
As part of the annual Back to School Supply Drive hosted by the West Harlem Development Corporation, the NYPD 26th Precinct, and the Manhattan Community Board 9, Facilities and Operations-led departments -- Public Safety and Construction Business Initiatives – teamed up with Columbia Community Services (CCS) to collect school supplies for students in the local community.
Facilities and Operations staff from across the organization attended a session led by The Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center.
On Thursday, August 31st, 2023, Facilities and Operations will support the 8th Annual Back-2-School community event being held at Old Broadway between 125th and 126th Street, from 1 - 5 p.m. and hosted by the 26th Precinct Community Affairs along with Manhattan Community Board 9, featuring a school supplies distribution, entertainment, refreshments, and other back-to-school resources.
Columbia University Facilities and Operations (CUFO) showcased its commitment to fostering economic inclusivity at the distinguished 2023 Ascend National Conference held in July at Loyola Marymount University. The two-day event brought together program managers across the national Ascend ecosystem and focused on providing minority-owned businesses with personal strategies for growth.
In alignment with the University's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, Columbia University Facilities and Operations (CUFO) established an Equity and Inclusion (E&I) Council in 2022, comprised of 19 members and seven advisors from various departments within the organization.
FIELDTRIP, a fast casual rice bowl restaurant by James Beard Award-winning chef JJ Johnson, is the newest Columbia University retail tenant to open its doors in Morningside Heights.