Common Ground Columbia

Common Ground Columbia was a "coordinated effort to promote an environment of mutual respect and understanding among students at the College, the most most ethnically, racially and economically diverse school in the Ivy League." The program consisted of a "Forum for Tolerance", which offered programs responsive to issues of race, ethnicity, culture, religious beliefs and sexual orientation, and a "Peer Education Program" to provide nine weeks of retraining in group dynamics, leadership and diversity issues to student volunteers, who would go on conduct workshops in residence halls. The program was funded by a three-year $1 million grant from the Phillip Morris Cos. which was distributing the grants to schools in order "to reduce the incidents of bias and intolerance on campus." The program was coordinated by graduate students and housed in 199 Hartley Hall.

External links

• College Starts on 'Common Ground', Columbia Record, October 1, 1993