Public Safety Celebrates First Leadership Foundations Program Graduates
Columbia University Facilities and Operations Human Resources and Public Safety celebrated the graduation of 16 sergeants and senior sergeants from its inaugural Leadership Foundations Program, designed to strengthen leadership, communication, and supervisory skills across the department.
First Major Restoration of Plaza Since the Campus’s Original Construction
inFO is a monthly email with news from across Columbia University Facilities and Operations. Check out the September 2026 edition.
This summer, 11 local high school students gained hands-on experience across Columbia University Facilities and Operations teams, developing skills in areas such as technology, construction management, finance, and AI while participating in professional development programming.
Columbia University Facilities and Operations Human Resources and Public Safety celebrated the graduation of 16 sergeants and senior sergeants from its inaugural Leadership Foundations Program, designed to strengthen leadership, communication, and supervisory skills across the department.
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The Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) awarded Columbia University’s Walter and Shirley Wang Pavilion as a Category Winner in its 2025 National Design Awards.
As the investigation continues into the tragic events at Brown University, our thoughts are with the Brown community and all those affected by this terrible event. We also want to keep our community fully informed about our public safety posture.
This holiday season, shop local and celebrate community with distinctive gifts and inspired finds at the Lee C. Bollinger Forum's Holiday Market, on through December 19, 2025.
The Best Shades is bringing custom window shades, drapes, and blinds to Columbia spaces – including the historic Casa Italiana.
Skipper's, a gift store featuring unique and fun finds with a special inventory of local New York City goods, has opened a pop-up location for the holiday season in Morningside Heights.
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.