CC-SEAS relationship - Revision history

Pbailinson at 00:02, 30 January 2014

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The Engineer: /* Flags */

2013-08-17T08:32:16Z

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Cds2148: /* Student council funding and territoriality */

2013-07-03T00:47:40Z

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Absentminded: /* Student council funding and territoriality */

2013-06-01T01:18:36Z

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Absentminded at 01:18, 1 June 2013

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Pacman: /* Student council funding and territoriality */

2013-05-31T22:53:02Z

‎Student council funding and territoriality

Pacman: /* Flags */

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Pacman: /* US News and World Report statistics */

2013-05-31T22:51:13Z

‎US News and World Report statistics

Reaganaut at 22:25, 4 May 2013

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Ttan at 02:08, 25 April 2013

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 While both schools are academically independent entities within the University, the undergraduates of the schools are administered under a joint office which essentially forges a single student body. CC and SEAS students live, eat, and study together at Columbia.
-The [[Division of Student Affairs]], headed by Dean [[Kevin Shollenberger]], oversees admissions, [[Advising|advising]], financial aid, student programming and activities, [[Office of Residential Programs|residential programs]], the scholars program, study abroad, pre-professional advising, and more for both [[Columbia College|CC]] and [[SEAS]]. They are your administrative shepherd for your undergraduate years.
+The [[Division of Student Affairs]], headed by Dean [[James Valentini]], oversees admissions, [[Advising|advising]], financial aid, student programming and activities, [[Office of Residential Programs|residential programs]], the scholars program, study abroad, pre-professional advising, and more for both [[Columbia College|CC]] and [[SEAS]]. They are your administrative shepherd for your undergraduate years.
 == Issues ==
 === US News and World Report statistics ===
-For years Columbia only reported the statistics of Columbia College to US News and World Report for their annual rankings of the "Best Colleges". This seemed to imply that SEAS wasn't considered part of the general undergraduate body. However, since 2006 US News has been using the combined statistics for both schools, and the Admissions office has been reporting statistics for the schools jointly as well, rendering this point moot. It should be noted that while CC has a lower overall admit rate, SEAS admits tend to have a higher average SAT score.
+For years Columbia only reported the statistics of Columbia College to US News and World Report for their annual rankings of the "Best Colleges". This seemed to imply that SEAS wasn't considered part of the general undergraduate body. However, since 2006 US News has been using the combined statistics for both schools, and the Admissions office has been reporting statistics for the schools jointly as well, rendering this point moot. It should be noted that while CC has a lower overall admit rate, SEAS admits tend to have a higher average SAT score. Furthermore, SEAS is the most selective engineering school in the nation.
 Despite the official trend towards statistical unification, the ''[[Spectator]]'' and various publications will "headline" only the College's admission rate, while mentioning SEAS's statistics separately in the body of the article. Often this is to make erroneous and misguided comparisons about having the "lowest rate in the [[Ivy League]]."

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 The flags and flagpoles on the South Lawn were a gift a CC alumnus, who supposedly stipulated that the flagpoles be used only for [[Columbia College]] flags. There have been reports, however, of witnessing SEAS flags on those poles during [[Days on Campus]], so nobody knows how much truth, if any, there is to this rumor. Efforts by the [[Engineering Student Council]] to remedy this by placing one SEAS flag in the area have been uniformly unsuccessful so far.
-The counter-argument to this complaint is that the flags fly on Hamilton Lawn, in front of [[Hamilton Hall]], the home of [[Columbia College]], while a SEAS flag flies in the plaza in front of [[Mudd]], home of SEAS. Of course there are limitations to this argument since the line between both schools is blurred—the undergraduate admissions office which handles applications for both schools is also located in Hamilton Hall.
+The counter-argument to this complaint is that the flags fly on Hamilton Lawn, in front of [[Hamilton Hall]], the home of [[Columbia College]], while a SEAS flag flies in the plaza in front of [[Mudd]], home of SEAS. Of course there are limitations to this argument since the line between both schools is blurred—the undergraduate admissions office which handles applications for both schools is also located in Hamilton Hall. Additionally, the flags extend along the [[Van Am Quad]] toward the direction of [[John Jay Hall]], which is clear for everyone on campus to see and think they are just campus flags, where the SEAS flags are tucked in the same sad corner of campus where Mudd lies.
 This was most recently brought up in AY 2012-13 by then-ESC president [[Tim Qin]], whose efforts were noted by an illustrator of ''[[The Blue and White]]''.

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 [[CCSC|Columbia College]] and [[ESC|SEAS]] have their own respective student governments, with class councils for each year of each class as well. While this makes some sense especially for the engineers who tend to have concerns and issues as engineering students that vary from many of their liberal arts and sciences peers, [[ESC]] officers have often complained that [[CCSC]] typically gets a disproportionately large share of student life funding.  However, the funding for the student councils is done in proportion to the number of undergraduates in that college.  This means that [[Columbia College Student Council|CCSC]] receives about three times as much funding as does ESC, as Columbia College has about three times the number of students.
-Inter-council tetchiness may also have something to do with CCSC's repeated propositions to ESC to [[Columbia College Student Council#Merger Attempts with ESC|consummate a merger]], which date back to [[1979]]. The most recent proposal was floated in 2006 by CC '07 Class President [[David Chait]].<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2006/03/21/combined-forces Combined Forces - The Spectator, 3-21-06]</ref>  This idea has been brought up from time to time, but has yet to come to fruition.
+Inter-council tetchiness may also have something to do with CCSC's repeated propositions to ESC to [[Columbia College Student Council#Merger Attempts with ESC|consummate a merger]], which date back to [[1979]]. The proposal was floated in 2006 by CC '07 Class President [[David Chait]]<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2006/03/21/combined-forces Combined Forces - The Spectator, 3-21-06]</ref>.
 == School of General Studies ==

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 [[CCSC|Columbia College]] and [[ESC|SEAS]] have their own respective student governments, with class councils for each year of each class as well. While this makes some sense especially for the engineers who tend to have concerns and issues as engineering students that vary from many of their liberal arts and sciences peers, [[ESC]] officers have often complained that [[CCSC]] typically gets a disproportionately large share of student life funding.  However, the funding for the student councils is done in proportion to the number of undergraduates in that college.  This means that [[Columbia College Student Council|CCSC]] receives about three times as much funding as does ESC, as Columbia College has about three times the number of students.
-Inter-council tetchiness may also have something to do with CCSC's repeated propositions to ESC to [[Columbia College Student Council#Merger Attempts with ESC|consummate a merger]], which date back to [[1978]]. The most recent proposal was floated in 2006 by CC '07 Class President [[David Chait]].<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2006/03/21/combined-forces Combined Forces - The Spectator, 3-21-06]</ref>  This idea has been brought up from time to time, but has yet to come to fruition.
+Inter-council tetchiness may also have something to do with CCSC's repeated propositions to ESC to [[Columbia College Student Council#Merger Attempts with ESC|consummate a merger]], which date back to [[1979]]. The most recent proposal was floated in 2006 by CC '07 Class President [[David Chait]].<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2006/03/21/combined-forces Combined Forces - The Spectator, 3-21-06]</ref>  This idea has been brought up from time to time, but has yet to come to fruition.
 == School of General Studies ==

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 [[CCSC|Columbia College]] and [[ESC|SEAS]] have their own respective student governments, with class councils for each year of each class as well. While this makes some sense especially for the engineers who tend to have concerns and issues as engineering students that vary from many of their liberal arts and sciences peers, [[ESC]] officers have often complained that [[CCSC]] typically gets a disproportionately large share of student life funding.  However, the funding for the student councils is done in proportion to the number of undergraduates in that college.  This means that [[Columbia College Student Council|CCSC]] receives about three times as much funding as does ESC, as Columbia College has about three times the number of students.
-In 2006, CC '07 Class President [[David Chait]] raised the idea of merging CCSC and ESC.<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2006/03/21/combined-forces Combined Forces - The Spectator, 3-21-06]</ref>  This idea has been brought up from time to time, but has yet to come to fruition.
+Inter-council tetchiness may also have something to do with CCSC's repeated propositions to ESC to [[Columbia College Student Council#Merger Attempts with ESC|consummate a merger]], which date back to [[1978]]. The most recent proposal was floated in 2006 by CC '07 Class President [[David Chait]].<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2006/03/21/combined-forces Combined Forces - The Spectator, 3-21-06]</ref>  This idea has been brought up from time to time, but has yet to come to fruition.
 == School of General Studies ==

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 The counter-argument to this complaint is that the flags fly on Hamilton Lawn, in front of [[Hamilton Hall]], the home of [[Columbia College]], while a SEAS flag flies in the plaza in front of [[Mudd]], home of SEAS. Of course there are limitations to this argument since the line between both schools is blurred—the undergraduate admissions office which handles applications for both schools is also located in Hamilton Hall.
-This was most recently brought up in AY 2012-13 by then-ESC president Tim Qin, whose efforts were noted by an illustrator of ''[[The Blue and White]]''.
+This was most recently brought up in AY 2012-13 by then-ESC president [[Tim Qin]], whose efforts were noted by an illustrator of ''[[The Blue and White]]''.
 === Student council funding and territoriality ===

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 For years Columbia only reported the statistics of Columbia College to US News and World Report for their annual rankings of the "Best Colleges". This seemed to imply that SEAS wasn't considered part of the general undergraduate body. However, since 2006 US News has been using the combined statistics for both schools, and the Admissions office has been reporting statistics for the schools jointly as well, rendering this point moot. It should be noted that while CC has a lower overall admit rate, SEAS admits tend to have a higher average SAT score.
-Despite the official trend towards statistical unification, the [[Spectator]] and various publications will "headline" only the College's admission rate, while mentioning SEAS's statistics separately in the body of the article. Often this is to make erroneous and misguided comparisons about having the "lowest rate in the ivy league."
+Despite the official trend towards statistical unification, the ''[[Spectator]]'' and various publications will "headline" only the College's admission rate, while mentioning SEAS's statistics separately in the body of the article. Often this is to make erroneous and misguided comparisons about having the "lowest rate in the [[Ivy League]]."
 With the recent move towards putting the "official stamp" on the combined statistics of the schools rather than privileging those of the College, publications are starting to catch on.

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 == School of General Studies ==
-Unlike [[CC]] and [[SEAS]], [[GS]] has a completely separate administration. This is a result of, and results in a variety of complications with regards to GS. In 2007, talks of a GS-CC merger surfaced. '''See Main Article, [[School of General Studies]].
+Unlike [[Columbia College|CC]] and [[SEAS]], [[GS]] has a completely separate administration. This is a result of, and results in a variety of complications with regards to GS. In 2007, talks of a GS-CC merger surfaced. '''See Main Article, [[School of General Studies]].
 == References ==