Columbia University is also offering spaces (a few hundred) for
students from closed universities. They will be admitted as visiting
students for the fall. Columbia will provide faculty from closed
universities with visting professor/scholar status enabling them to access libraries and facilites. See pasted email below for more details.
To the Columbia Community:
I know that all of us share the grief of the nation and the world at the tragedy in New Orleans. Many people at Columbia, I'm sure, have already contributed to the relief efforts and have taken other measures to help with this crisis. I want to inform you about what Columbia has been doing and to invite you to join our efforts.
Over the last few days, we have taken steps to enable displaced students from the New Orleans area to enroll at Columbia this fall. We do not yet have an accurate count of how many such students will join us, but we believe that there could be as many as several hundred. They will have the status of visiting students and will be able to take courses for credit, which they can then transfer to their home institutions. We are not asking these students to pay tuition or fees directly and will work out any financial issues with their home institutions once those institutions are again functioning. Undergraduates will enroll as visiting students in courses through the School of Continuing Education. Graduate students will enroll as visitors through the schools in which they wish to study. While we are unable to provide housing, we are working on ways to ensure that the matriculated visiting students retain health insurance while they are here. I hope that everyone in our community will make an effort to welcome these students and help them enjoy and profit from their time with us.
Columbia will also welcome as visiting scholars/visiting scientists those faculty and researchers from affected colleges and universities in that region who decide to relocate temporarily to New York. We will provide them access to our libraries and gym and welcome them to join the academic events of our community. Anyone who knows of a displaced scholar who would like such a designation should contact Jane Acton Chung in the International Students and Scholars Office (212-854-3587; ja378@columbia.edu). She will direct them to the appropriate academic unit.
To the Columbia Community:
I know that all of us share the grief of the nation and the world at the tragedy in New Orleans. Many people at Columbia, I'm sure, have already contributed to the relief efforts and have taken other measures to help with this crisis. I want to inform you about what Columbia has been doing and to invite you to join our efforts.
Over the last few days, we have taken steps to enable displaced students from the New Orleans area to enroll at Columbia this fall. We do not yet have an accurate count of how many such students will join us, but we believe that there could be as many as several hundred. They will have the status of visiting students and will be able to take courses for credit, which they can then transfer to their home institutions. We are not asking these students to pay tuition or fees directly and will work out any financial issues with their home institutions once those institutions are again functioning. Undergraduates will enroll as visiting students in courses through the School of Continuing Education. Graduate students will enroll as visitors through the schools in which they wish to study. While we are unable to provide housing, we are working on ways to ensure that the matriculated visiting students retain health insurance while they are here. I hope that everyone in our community will make an effort to welcome these students and help them enjoy and profit from their time with us.
Columbia will also welcome as visiting scholars/visiting scientists those faculty and researchers from affected colleges and universities in that region who decide to relocate temporarily to New York. We will provide them access to our libraries and gym and welcome them to join the academic events of our community. Anyone who knows of a displaced scholar who would like such a designation should contact Jane Acton Chung in the International Students and Scholars Office (212-854-3587; ja378@columbia.edu). She will direct them to the appropriate academic unit.
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