On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 7:23 PM James J. Valentini wrote: Dear Ira, I will have to address your questions to the Committee on the Core. A partial answer I can provide now to your first question: The absence of an instructor identified in the Directory of Classes does not mean necessarily that an instructor has not been assigned to that class section. Similarly, I can attempt a preliminary answer to your second question. I provided to the Committee on the Core your July 9 email to me. At the meeting of the Committee on the Core on July 10, the Committee had your email as the reference point for their discussion, and they understood that their course-wide policy decision was judged by the President and you as inconsistent with University policy. Consequently, they withdrew their policy of a standard, consistent, course-wide online modality, and left the decision of modality up to each individual instructor. That is the decision of the Committee on the Core that I was trying to convey to you in my email of July 14. I will ask the Committee on the Core for confirmation of the accuracy of my message. As to your puzzle I do not think I can deliver a comparative assessment, since I have no real knowledge of the curricula of SEAS or Business or GSAS. Also, there might be some ambiguity about what "the College teaching" refers to. The curriculum of the College is presented in the College Bulletin, wherein are described 57 recognized programs, mounted by faculty in the Arts & Sciences departments and institutes, Barnard, Business, School of the Arts, Engineering, Public Health, Physical Education and the Earth Institute. So, "the College teaching" is done by thousands of faculty throughout the University. Almost all the courses listed in the College Bulletin are open to all undergraduates--College, General Studies, Barnard and Engineering--and so are not College-specific. I think the data on the curriculum prepared for the Trustees Academic Affairs Committee meeting last December probably shows this. I can recover the report you sent to the Trustees to assess that. In any event, there are way too many courses that are components of the 57 academic programs described in the College Bulletin--perhaps 1,000 or more in the Fall semester--for me to be able to do an analysis of teaching modalities over the full range of those course offerings by myself. If this is important to determine, I can enlist someone to help me, but it will take some time to complete. Regards, Jim James J. Valentini Dean of Columbia College and Vice President for Undergraduate Education 208 Hamilton Hall Columbia University New York, NY 10027 Voice: 212-854-2441 Email: jjv1@columbia.edu