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This page is a comprehensive plan to improve Columbia for its students. It is currently based on an article published in the Columbia Spectator on April 30, 2007.[1]
[edit] Campus and buildings
[edit] Campus and outdoor spaces
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Replace aging bricks on College Walk - old bricks have been replaced by asphalt pavers
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Improve the drainage on campus, especially College Walk - drainage was improved during brick replacement
- Keep one field on South Lawn open at all times for recreation
- Improve campus wheelchair accessibility
- Provide dedicated distribution racks for all campus publications
- Keep 117th Street gates (at Broadway and Amsterdam) open until 9 pm
[edit] Buildings
- Provide more electrical outlets in all libraries and classrooms
- Design future buildings without grossly violating the campus aesthetic
- Extend hours of classroom buildings with study space
[edit] Bathrooms
- Install motion-sensitive sinks in all public bathrooms
- Install paper-towel dispensers in all campus bathrooms
- Bring the comfortable chairs and computers back to Lerner's lobby
- Extend Lerner's hours
- Provide USPS services in Lerner
- Make Lerner 6 available for student use
[edit] All libraries
- Allow students to bring water into all libraries
- Move ashtrays away from the Butler doors to the Butler steps
- Allow outside food and drinks in Butler, especially after Blue Java closes
- Open the sixth floor of Butler, and the third floor reference and card catalog rooms 24/7
- Open Butler stacks 24/7
- Put vending machines in Butler
- Remove unattended belongings in Butler at specified times
[edit] Technology
[edit] General IT
- Provide consistent wireless coverage across campus, especially in dorms
- Include Barnard on the University-wide e-mail listserv
[edit] Network storage space
- Implement mappable SMB file shares so users can save and access their work anywhere on the network, instead of having to carry memory sticks, or obsessively emailing files to themselves
[edit] Printing
- Replace aging printers in computer labs around campus
- Allow print quotas to roll over from week to week (like cell phone minutes)
- Install color printers around campus
- Regularly replace toner in printers
- Allow complete swipe access between Barnard and Columbia
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Remove Social Security Numbers from CUIDs - project underway
- Add a second card-swiper in EC, especially on weekends
[edit] ROLM phones
- Provide free local calls and inter-school calls on ROLM phones
[edit] Academics
[edit] Departments
- Expand the human rights and ethnic studies majors
- Revive the African Institute
- Improve inter-departmental communication
[edit] Bookstore
- Stock course books in the bookstore according to the number of students registered
[edit] Course registration and technology
- Combine the Course Bulletin and Directory of Classes
- Update all department and campus Web sites regularly and implement a common content management system, such as Drupal
- Update online listings for Major Cultures and the science requirement based on available courses
- Allow students to see professors' names when registering for Core Curriculum classes
- Release course evaluation data
- Create more sections of Art and Music Humanities and set some aside specifically for sophomores and first-years
- Make course syllabi available online for all students
[edit] Seminars
- Standardize seminar registration processes across schools and implement online registration
- Allot seminar times before registration
[edit] Advising
- Standardize departmental advising
[edit] Study abroad
- Better facilitate the transfer of credits from institutions abroad to Columbia majors and transcript in general
[edit] Housing and dining
[edit] Housing
- Provide cheaper interim housing between the spring and summer sessions
[edit] Residence halls
- Regularly clean laundry rooms and install change machines
- Provide air conditioning in all dorms, and turn it on before May 15
- Install thermostats in dorms
- Renovate aging dorms
- Install bigger kitchen sinks and more counter space in all dorm kitchens
- Allow all first-year John Jay meals to roll over into sophomore year
- Do not require meal plan for non first-year Barnard students living on the quad
- Implement off-campus Flex, especially at Labyrinth and Village Copier
- Accept Flex dollars at all campus eateries
[edit] All dining locations
- Provide more vegetarian and vegan options at all campus eateries
- Provide a spinach option at the 212 salad bar
- Extend Ferris Booth's breakfast options to later in the morning
- Keep JJ's open on weekends 24/7 and extend weekday hours
[edit] Dining halls
- Provide more-varied and better-quality fruit in John Jay
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Install a soy milk dispenser in John Jay - dispenser added in summer 2007
- Extend the hours of John Jay and Hewitt dining halls
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Install a deli bar in John Jay - added in summer 2007
[edit] Student life
[edit] General student life
[edit] Student government and clubs
- Allow students to vote online in CCSC elections
- Increase funding for student clubs
- Allow students to determine, at least in part, which groups get the funds from their student activity fees
[edit] Events
- Sell Miller Theater and discounted New York theater tickets at Lerner's box office
- Devise better programming for campus events such as Bacchanal
- Allow students to drink more than one beer per hour at campus events
[edit] Student jobs
- Provide more on-campus jobs for students who don't have work study
[edit] Student facilities
- Expand CCE's alumni networking
- Increase CCE's resources and improve its offerings, particularly outside finance
- Allow students to sign up for Dodge Gym's aerobics machines online
- Put satellite gyms in more dorms
- Reinstate equipment rentals in Dodge
[edit] References
- ↑ Columbia Daily Spectator: Editorial: The Little Things
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