News

Beginning December 8, CUID swipe access to all academic buildings on Columbia’s Morningside campus has been removed during regular building hours. 

inFO is a monthly email with news from across Columbia University Facilities and Operations. Check out the November 2025 edition.

Continuing a longstanding tradition of Thanksgiving generosity, several Columbia University Facilities and Operations (CUFO) departments came together to gift staff members a meal, donate turkeys to local organizations, and assemble and distribute meal kits to local community members. 

Facilities and Operations team recognized for driving emissions reductions and cost savings.

During a gut renovation of the 500 and 800 levels at the Interchurch Center earlier this year, Columbia rehomed some of the gently used office furniture from Interchurch to KCM Contracting, a Yonkers-based small business.  

Throughout the six-week program, students spent four days each week embedded within one of CUFO’s teams to gain hands-on work experience. 

Emily Ailts, Colin Downes, and Marie Rigaud – who work together at Event Management – have been putting in some additional hours outside of Columbia: training for the New York City marathon.

The Facilities and Operations Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report has been released, celebrating the many accomplishments Facilities and Operations has made during the past fiscal year.

This spring Columbia Residential streamlined its process for refreshing apartments between tenants. Through data automation, this new process is estimated to create an 83 percent time savings, recovering an estimated 2,500 staff hours annually – time that is being redeployed to more efficiently address work orders and other resident needs. 

inFO is a monthly email with news from across Columbia University Facilities and Operations. Check out the October 2025 edition.

Method Collective, a women-owned, mat-based movement space, has signed a lease with Columbia University to open a new location dedicated to indoor cycling at Columbia Business School’s Henry R. Kravis Hall. 

Oasis Jimma Juice Bar is opening a new location at 2289 12th Avenue (between 130th and 131st Streets) in Columbia Business School’s Henry R. Kravis Hall. Patrons can join Oasis Jimma Juice Bar's grand opening event on Thursday, October 16 at 12 p.m., featuring free food samples and live music. 

Gyasi Headen, Executive Director of Pathways to Apprenticeship, offers remarks at a pre-apprenticeship graduation ceremony in David Geffen Hall.

This Climate Week, we’re highlighting initiatives across Facilities and Operations that contribute to Columbia’s sustainability goals.

Columbia University Facilities Operations (CUFO), Columbia Health, and the Office of Alumni Relations & Development are partnering to pilot a mentorship program, matching early-career staff from all three departments with Columbia University leaders.