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Its fate is in your hands.
Yesterday, CCSC released the comprehensive spring semester report you never knew you needed. It includes a list of completed and in progress initiatives, events (throwback to the Major Discovery event with the rotten turkey) and the attendance sheet for the semester (#transparency). It’s a nice Issuu document, check it out.
CCSC also wants you to become a student representative to a curriculum committee. And so do we. We want interesting, useful classes, dammit, and we can’t trust anybody except YOU to get them for us! Also, someone has to step up and back up all the complaining we do with some action.
In the words of the blurb CCSC sent to us:
Hey Columbia College students, interested in having your voice heard in the shaping of our Core Curriculum? Apply to become a student representative on the Committee on the Core! The CoC is the academic committee that manages the structure, goals, and future of the Core Curriculum. As a representative, you’ll directly interact with all of the heads of the Core Curriculum subjects and requirements — Lit Hum, CC, Frontiers of Science, and all the others — as well as Dean Valentini and the Academic Affairs Deans, Dean Yatrakis and Dean Montás.
And, for the first time ever, students can also apply as representatives to the Committee on Global Core and Committee on Science Instruction — the college faculty committees that lead and structure our global core and science requirements. If you’ve ever had any grievances for how our academics are run around here, being a representative on either of these two committees would place you in a perfect position to air them.
Applications are due at12:00pm on Monday11:59 pm tonight! Reach out to [Grayson Warrick] or Sejal Singh with any questions you might have. No experience is needed, and I encourage all CC sophomores, juniors, and seniors to apply — the Core greatly defines our academic lives here, and this is a great way to help improve the education of all future CC students!
You could decide what the future President of the United States learns. You can make a better world for yourself and your children. Go for it. Applications can be found here.
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@Anonymous You posted an hour after the deadlines were up…
@Maud Sorry, the deadlines were extended to midnight tonight. The post has been updated.
@CC'16 At the same time, if the Committee on the Core is really just looking for people to make minor edits to the curriculum that don’t really challenge anything, how will any serious changes be made? I applied as a freshman and suggested that the global core promotes a separate but equal distinction between western and non western cultures. Pretty sure my ideas for changes were a bit too radical.