About University Life

"The mission of the new Office of University Life will be to further the academic and community experience of students, faculty and staff at Columbia."

- Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger

At the Office of University Life, our focus is on the University community.

Columbia is intensely diverse and robustly pluralistic -- with 16 schools and students, faculty and staff from myriad disciplines, backgrounds and experiences. Yet we share a collective commitment to advancing learning and knowledge at the highest level, and to sharing these efforts throughout the world.

The Office of University Life is your hub for University-wide student life information and initiatives.

Learn about Columbia resources.
Join us for lively campus conversations on pressing issues in AWAKENING OUR DEMOCRACY and other forums and pop-up events.
Take a break with yoga on the lawns, Wellness Days @Columbia and StudyBreak @ CU.
Help shape community citizenship at Columbia through workshops, task forces and working groups with students, faculty and administrators from across the University. You can step up and join the team leading the Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative, as one option.

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DACA Update: Federal court rules in favor of DACA program

We join with students, scholars, advocates and all who are heartened by recent news that DACA protections for undocumented students must remain and that the U.S. federal government must resume accepting new applications.

Campus Conversations Initiative

Learn facilitation skills and be part of the Campus Conversations project on identity, designed by Columbia’s Race, Ethnicity and Inclusion Task Force and the Office of University Life. Sign up for one of two training sessions this month.

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