Editing Columbia University (section)

==Student life==
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
|-
! Race and ethnicity<ref>{{cite web|title=College Scorecard: Columbia University|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?190150-Columbia-University-in-the-City-of-New-York|publisher=[[United States Department of Education]]|access-date=May 8, 2022|archive-date=August 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812053511/https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?190150-Columbia-University-in-the-City-of-New-York|url-status=live}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
| [[Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|33|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
| [[Foreign national]]
|align=right| {{bartable|18|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
| [[Asian Americans|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|17|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]
|align=right| {{bartable|15|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| Other{{efn|Other consists of [[Multiracial Americans]] and those who prefer not to say.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|10|%|2||background:brown}}
|-
| [[African Americans|Black]]
|align=right| {{bartable|7|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |[[Economic diversity]]
|-
| [[American lower class|Low-income]]{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal [[Pell grant]] intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|19|%|2||background:red}}
|-
| [[Affluence in the United States|Affluent]]{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the [[American middle class]] at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|81|%|2||background:black}}
|}
In 2020, Columbia University's student population was 31,455 (8,842 students in undergraduate programs and 22,613 in postgraduate programs), with 45% of the student population identifying themselves as a minority.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Columbia University|date=January 12, 2021|title=Headcount Enrollment by School, Race/Ethnicity, and Citizenship, Fall 2020|url=https://opir.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Statistical%20Abstract/opir_enrollment_ethnicity.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519193542/https://opir.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Statistical%20Abstract/opir_enrollment_ethnicity.pdf |archive-date=May 19, 2020 |url-status=live|access-date=June 8, 2021}}</ref> Twenty-six percent of students at Columbia have family incomes below $60,000. 16% of students at Columbia receive Federal Pell Grants,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Facts and Figures {{!}} Columbia Financial Aid and Educational Financing|url=https://cc-seas.financialaid.columbia.edu/eligibility/facts|access-date=January 28, 2019|website=Cc-seas.financialaid.columbia.edu|language=en|archive-date=December 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221224207/https://cc-seas.financialaid.columbia.edu/eligibility/facts|url-status=live}}</ref> which mostly go to students whose family incomes are below $40,000. Seventeen percent of students are the first member of their family to attend a four-year college.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Quick Fact: First Generation {{!}} Columbia Undergraduate Admissions|url=https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/explore/fact/quick-fact-first-generation|access-date=April 1, 2019|website=undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401160100/https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/explore/fact/quick-fact-first-generation|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On-campus housing is guaranteed for all four years as an undergraduate. [[Columbia College, Columbia University|Columbia College]] and the [[Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science|Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] (also known as SEAS or Columbia Engineering) share housing in the on-campus residence halls. First-year students usually live in one of the large residence halls situated around South Lawn: [[Carman Hall]], [[Furnald Hall]], [[Hartley Hall]], [[John Jay Hall]], or [[Wallach Hall]] (originally Livingston Hall). Upperclassmen participate in a room selection process, wherein students can pick to live in a mix of either corridor- or apartment-style housing with their friends. The [[Columbia University School of General Studies]], [[Barnard College]] and graduate schools have their own apartment-style housing in the surrounding neighborhood.<ref>{{cite web|title=Housing and Dining|url=http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/campus/housing.php|access-date=April 16, 2011|publisher=Columbia University Office of Student Affairs|archive-date=August 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806070728/http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/campus/housing.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Columbia University is home to many [[Fraternities and sororities in North America|fraternities, sororities]], and co-educational Greek organizations. Approximately 10–15% of undergraduate students are associated with Greek life.<ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/faq/campus.php#4 Office of Undergraduate Admissions site about Campus Life] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419140748/http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/faq/campus.php#4 |date=April 19, 2012 }}. Retrieved September 12, 2007.</ref> Many Barnard women also join Columbia sororities. There has been a Greek presence on campus since the establishment in 1836 of the Delta chapter of [[Alpha Delta Phi]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Alpha Delta Phi Society: About Us|url=http://www.adpscolumbia.org/home.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207180508/http://www.adpscolumbia.org/home.php|archive-date=February 7, 2011|access-date=April 11, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Fraternity and Sorority Life at Columbia|url=http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/resprograms/fraternity_sorority/council/|access-date=April 17, 2011|publisher=Columbia University|archive-date=June 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623115419/http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/resprograms/fraternity_sorority/council|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Publications===
[[File:Spec1962.jpg|thumb|Copies of the ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'' being sold during the [[1962–1963 New York City newspaper strike]]]]
[[File:JesterCoverGWBridge.jpg|thumb|The [[Art Deco]] cover of the November 1931 edition of the [[Jester of Columbia|''Jester'']], celebrating the opening of the [[George Washington Bridge]]]]
The ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'' is the nation's second-oldest continuously operating daily student newspaper.<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbia Daily Spectator|url=http://www.columbiaspectator.com/|access-date=August 10, 2006|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115065620/https://www.columbiaspectator.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[The Blue and White]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Blue & White|url=http://www.theblueandwhite.org/|access-date=August 10, 2006|archive-date=January 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109163518/http://www.theblueandwhite.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> is a monthly literary magazine established in 1890 that discusses campus life and local politics. ''[[Bwog]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Bwog|url=https://bwog.com/|access-date=April 28, 2022|archive-date=May 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501132933/https://bwog.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> originally an offshoot of ''The Blue and White'' but now fully independent, is an online campus news and entertainment source. ''[[The Morningside Post]]'' is a student-run multimedia news publication.

Political publications include ''[[The Current (Columbia University journal)|The Current]]'', a journal of politics, culture and Jewish Affairs;<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Current: a journal of contemporary politics, culture, and Jewish affairs at Columbia University|url=http://www.columbia-current.org/|website=The Current|access-date=November 2, 2020|archive-date=October 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029000400/http://www.columbia-current.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> the ''[[Columbia Political Review]]'', the multi-partisan political magazine of the Columbia Political Union;<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbia Political Review|url=http://www.cpreview.org/|access-date=December 26, 2008|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115065703/http://www.cpreview.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''AdHoc'', which denotes itself as the "progressive" campus magazine and deals largely with local political issues and arts events.<ref>{{cite web|title=AdHoc|url=http://www.adhocmag.com/|access-date=August 10, 2006|archive-date=December 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213062434/http://www.adhocmag.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Columbia Magazine'' is the alumni magazine of Columbia, serving all 340,000+ of the university's alumni. Arts and literary publications include ''The Columbia Review'', the nation's oldest college literary magazine;<ref>{{cite web|title=The Columbia Review|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/review|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060804021747/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/review/|archive-date=August 4, 2006|access-date=August 10, 2006}}</ref> ''Surgam'', the literary magazine of [[The Philolexian Society]];<ref>{{cite web|title=About|date=October 8, 2014|url=https://surgammag.wordpress.com/about/|access-date=April 28, 2022|archive-date=April 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220428225601/https://surgammag.wordpress.com/about/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Quarto'', Columbia University's official undergraduate literary magazine;<ref>{{cite web|title=About Quarto|url=http://quartomagazine.com/about|access-date=April 28, 2022|archive-date=June 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607205508/http://quartomagazine.com/about|url-status=live}}</ref> ''4x4'', a student-run alternative to ''Quarto'';<ref>{{cite web|title=4x4 About|url=https://www.fourxfourmag.com/|access-date=April 28, 2022|archive-date=February 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206014456/https://www.fourxfourmag.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Columbia'', a nationally regarded [[literary journal]]; the ''Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism'';<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/cjlc/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009182446/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/cjlc/|archive-date=October 9, 2006|access-date=December 7, 2006}}</ref> and ''The Mobius Strip'', an online arts and literary magazine.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Mobius Strip|url=http://www.mobiusmag.com/|access-date=August 10, 2006|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106065831/http://www.mobiusmag.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Inside New York]]'' is an annual guidebook to New York City, written, edited, and published by Columbia undergraduates. Through a distribution agreement with [[Columbia University Press]], the book is sold at major retailers and independent bookstores.<ref>{{cite web|title=Inside New York|url=http://www.insidenewyork.com/about|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703021020/http://insidenewyork.com/about/|archive-date=July 3, 2011|access-date=October 26, 2009}}</ref>

Columbia is home to numerous undergraduate academic publications. The ''Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal'' prints original science research in its two annual publications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cusj.columbia.edu/|title=Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal|website=cusj.columbia.edu|access-date=January 7, 2022|archive-date=January 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107194410/https://cusj.columbia.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''[[Journal of Politics & Society]]'' is a journal of undergraduate research in the social sciences;<ref>{{cite web|title=Journal of Politics & Society|url=http://www.helvidius.org/|access-date=August 10, 2006|archive-date=August 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815125915/http://www.helvidius.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Publius'' is an undergraduate journal of politics established in 2008 and published biannually;<ref>{{cite web|title=Publius: About|url=http://www.publiuscu.org/about-publius/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727191716/http://www.publiuscu.org/about-publius/|archive-date=July 27, 2011|access-date=April 17, 2011}}</ref> the ''Columbia East Asia Review'' allows undergraduates throughout the world to publish original work on China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, and Vietnam and is supported by the [[Weatherhead East Asian Institute]];<ref>{{cite web|title=East Asia Review: About Us|url=http://www.eastasiareview.org/about/index.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110420091255/http://www.eastasiareview.org/about/index.shtml|archive-date=April 20, 2011|access-date=April 17, 2011|publisher=East Asia Review}}</ref> ''[[The Birch]]'' is an undergraduate journal of Eastern European and Eurasian culture that is the first national student-run journal of its kind;<ref>{{cite web|title=The Birch|url=http://www.thebirchonline.org/|access-date=August 10, 2006|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115065759/http://www.thebirchonline.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> the ''Columbia Economics Review'' is the undergraduate economic journal on research and policy supported by the Columbia Economics Department; and the ''Columbia Science Review'' is a science magazine that prints general interest articles and faculty profiles.<ref>{{cite web|title=History and Vision|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/csr/about.html|access-date=April 17, 2011|publisher=Columbia Science Review|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115065756/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/csr/about.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Humor publications on Columbia's campus include ''[[The Fed (Columbia newspaper)|The Fed]]'', a triweekly satire and investigative newspaper, and the ''[[Jester of Columbia]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Fed|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/thefed|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060804020230/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/thefed/|archive-date=August 4, 2006|access-date=August 10, 2006}}</ref>''<ref>{{cite web|title=Jester of Columbia|url=http://www.jesterofcolumbia.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713103115/http://www.jesterofcolumbia.com/|archive-date=July 13, 2011|access-date=August 10, 2006}}</ref> Other publications include ''The Columbian'', the undergraduate colleges' annually published yearbook;<ref>{{cite web|title=The Columbian|url=http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/gradzone/guests/gifts|access-date=April 17, 2011|publisher=Columbia University|archive-date=February 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215101618/http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/gradzone/guests/gifts|url-status=live}}</ref> the ''Gadfly'', a biannual journal of popular philosophy produced by undergraduates;<ref>{{cite web|title=The Gadfly: About|url=http://www.gadflymagazine.com/about/|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110509035515/http://www.gadflymagazine.com/about/|archive-date=May 9, 2011|access-date=April 17, 2011|publisher=The Gadlfy}}</ref> and ''Rhapsody in Blue'', an undergraduate urban studies magazine.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Rhapsody|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/rhapsody/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624020241/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/rhapsody/|archive-date=June 24, 2010|access-date=April 17, 2011|publisher=Columbia University}}</ref> Professional journals published by academic departments at Columbia University include ''Current Musicology'' and ''[[The Journal of Philosophy]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Current Musicology|url=http://music.columbia.edu/%7Ecurmus/|access-date=August 10, 2006|archive-date=June 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624015311/http://www.music.columbia.edu/~curmus/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Journal of Philosophy|url=http://www.journalofphilosophy.org/|access-date=August 10, 2006|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115065845/http://www.journalofphilosophy.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> During the spring semester, graduate students in the Journalism School publish ''The Bronx Beat'', a bi-weekly newspaper covering the South Bronx.

Founded in 1961 under the auspices of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' (CJR) examines day-to-day press performance as well as the forces that affect that performance. The magazine is published six times a year.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=About Us: Mission Statement|url=https://www.cjr.org/index.php|magazine=[[Columbia Journalism Review]]|access-date=April 16, 2011|archive-date=May 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514055343/http://www.cjr.org/index.php|url-status=live}}</ref>

Former publications include the ''Columbia University Forum'', a review of literature and cultural affairs distributed for free to alumni.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=Miller |title=Pure and Simple Pleasure |journal=The American Scholar |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=698–702 |date=1968 |issn=0003-0937 |jstor=41209618 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Coleman |first1=Alexander |title=Rev. of The Columbia University Forum Anthology |work=[[The New York Times]] |page=87 |date=1968-06-30 |url=https://nyti.ms/40yP1S4 |language=en |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

===Broadcasting===
Columbia is home to two pioneers in undergraduate [[campus radio]] broadcasting, [[WKCR-FM]] and CTV. Many undergraduates are also involved with Barnard's radio station, [[WBAR (Barnard College)|WBAR]]. WKCR, the student run radio station that broadcasts to the Tri-state area, claims to be the oldest FM radio station in the world, owing to the university's affiliation with [[Edwin Howard Armstrong]].<ref>{{cite web|year=2009|title="The Original FM": The Columbia University Radio Club|url=http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/history|access-date=January 12, 2013|publisher=Columbia University|archive-date=February 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226180937/http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/history|url-status=live}}</ref> The station has its studios on the second floor of Alfred Lerner Hall on the Morningside campus with its main transmitter tower at [[4 Times Square]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]]. Columbia Television (CTV) is the nation's second oldest [[student television station]] and the home of CTV News, a weekly live news program produced by undergraduate students.<ref>{{cite web|title=CTV News|url=http://www.ctvnewsonline.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061104113018/http://www.ctvnewsonline.com/|archive-date=November 4, 2006|access-date=August 10, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=CTV|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ctv|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820181902/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ctv/|archive-date=August 20, 2006|access-date=August 10, 2006}}</ref>

===Debate and Model UN===
The [[Philolexian Society]] is a literary and debating club founded in 1802, making it the oldest student group at Columbia, as well as the third oldest collegiate literary society in the country.<ref>{{cite web|date=February 1, 2010|title=History|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philo/history/|access-date=April 11, 2011|publisher=Philolexian Society|archive-date=February 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205032007/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philo/History/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The society annually administers the [[Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Jaynes, Gregory|date=December 5, 1987|title=No, Not a Curse But a Jersey Prize For Worst Verse|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/05/nyregion/about-new-york-no-not-a-curse-but-a-jersey-prize-for-worst-verse.html|access-date=April 16, 2011|archive-date=November 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103222446/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/05/nyregion/about-new-york-no-not-a-curse-but-a-jersey-prize-for-worst-verse.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The Columbia Parliamentary Debate Team competes in tournaments around the country as part of the [[American Parliamentary Debate Association]], and hosts both high school and college tournaments on Columbia's campus, as well as public debates on issues affecting the university.<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbia Parliamentary Debate Team|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/debate|access-date=August 10, 2006|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115065955/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/debate/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Columbia International Relations Council and Association (CIRCA), oversees Columbia's [[Model United Nations]] activities. CIRCA hosts college and high school Model UN conferences, hosts speakers influential in international politics to speak on campus, and trains students from underprivileged schools in New York in Model UN.<ref>{{cite web|title=CIRCA – About|url=http://circa.cmunce.org/drupal/node/7|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725182951/http://circa.cmunce.org/drupal/node/7|archive-date=July 25, 2011|access-date=August 10, 2006}}</ref>

===Technology and entrepreneurship===
[[File:Columbia_University_-_Department_of_Physics_(48170362276).jpg|alt=|thumb|[[Pupin Hall]], the physics building, showing the rooftop [[Rutherfurd Observatory]]]]
Columbia is a top supplier of young engineering entrepreneurs for New York City. Over the past 20 years, graduates of Columbia established over 100 technology companies.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kathleen|first=Mary|date=June 7, 2010|title=Mecca on the Hudson?|work=The Deal|url=http://www.thedeal.com/newsweekly/2010/june-7-2010/vc-mecca-on-the-hudson.php#bottom|url-status=dead|access-date=October 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100908162123/http://www.thedeal.com/newsweekly/2010/june-7-2010/vc-mecca-on-the-hudson.php|archive-date=September 8, 2010}}</ref>

The Columbia University Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE) was founded in 1999. The student-run group aims to foster entrepreneurship on campus. Each year CORE hosts dozens of events, including talks, #StartupColumbia, a conference and venture competition for $250,000, and Ignite@CU, a weekend for undergrads interested in design, engineering, and entrepreneurship. Notable speakers include [[Peter Thiel]], [[Jack Dorsey]],<ref>{{cite web|author=Jon Swartz|date=September 17, 2013|title=Square's Jack Dorsey goes recruiting in NYC|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/09/17/jack-dorsey-square-twitter-paypal-intuit/2777621/|access-date=August 3, 2015|work=USA Today|archive-date=September 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903214725/http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/09/17/jack-dorsey-square-twitter-paypal-intuit/2777621/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Alexis Ohanian]], [[Drew Houston]], and [[Mark Cuban]]. As of 2006, CORE had awarded graduate and undergraduate students over $100,000 in seed capital.

CampusNetwork, an on-campus social networking site called Campus Network that preceded Facebook, was created and popularized by Columbia engineering student Adam Goldberg in 2003. [[Mark Zuckerberg]] later asked Goldberg to join him in [[Palo Alto]] to work on Facebook, but Goldberg declined the offer.<ref>{{cite web|author=Cormier, Amanda|date=October 7, 2010|title=Columbia's Web 3.0|url=http://eye.columbiaspectator.com/article/2010/10/07/columbias-web-30|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102155611/http://eye.columbiaspectator.com/article/2010/10/07/columbias-web-30|archive-date=November 2, 2010|access-date=October 30, 2010|publisher=The Eye}}</ref> The [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] offers a minor in Technical Entrepreneurship through its Center for Technology, Innovation, and Community Engagement. SEAS' entrepreneurship activities focus on community building initiatives in New York and worldwide, made possible through partners such as [[Microsoft Corporation]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Engaged Entrepreneurship|url=http://ctice.columbia.edu/content/engaged-entrepreneurship|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210084331/http://ctice.columbia.edu/content/engaged-entrepreneurship|archive-date=December 10, 2010|access-date=April 16, 2011|publisher=Columbia University}}</ref>

On June 14, 2010, Mayor [[Michael R. Bloomberg]] launched the NYC Media Lab to promote innovations in New York's media industry. Situated at the [[New York University Tandon School of Engineering]], the lab is a consortium of Columbia University, [[New York University]], and [[New York City Economic Development Corporation]] acting to connect companies with universities in new technology research. The Lab is modeled after similar ones at [[MIT]] and [[Stanford]], and was established with a $250,000 grant from the New York City Economic Development Corporation.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kuchment|first=Anna|date=June 28, 2010|title=Columbia Joins NYC Media Lab|work=The Record|url=http://curecordarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cr20100628-01.2.22&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|access-date=May 15, 2021|archive-date=May 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515050001/http://curecordarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cr20100628-01.2.22&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|url-status=live}}</ref>

===World Leaders Forum===
[[File:Uniwersytet_Columbia.jpg|thumb|World Leaders Forum at [[Low Memorial Library]]]]
Established in 2003 by university president [[Lee C. Bollinger]], the World Leaders Forum at Columbia University provides the opportunity for students and faculty to listen to world leaders in government, religion, industry, finance, and academia.<ref>{{cite web|title=About|url=https://worldleaders.columbia.edu/content/about|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150828133419/http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/president-lee-c-bollingers-statement-about-world-leaders-forum|archive-date=August 28, 2015|access-date=April 26, 2024|website=Columbia University World Leaders Forum}}</ref>

Past forum speakers include former president of the United States [[Bill Clinton]], the prime minister of India [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]], former president of Ghana [[John Agyekum Kufuor]], president of Afghanistan [[Hamid Karzai]], prime minister of Russia [[Vladimir Putin]], president of the Republic of Mozambique [[Joaquim Alberto Chissano]], president of the Republic of Bolivia [[Carlos Diego Mesa Gisbert]], president of the Republic of Romania [[Ion Iliescu]], president of the Republic of Latvia [[Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga]], the first female president of Finland [[Tarja Halonen]], President [[Yudhoyono]] of Indonesia, President [[Pervez Musharraf]] of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Iraq President [[Jalal Talabani]], the [[14th Dalai Lama]], president of the Islamic Republic of Iran [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], financier [[George Soros]], Mayor of New York City [[Michael R. Bloomberg]], President [[Václav Klaus]] of the Czech Republic, President [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]] of Argentina, former Secretary-General of the United Nations [[Kofi Annan]], and [[Al Gore]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Participants|url=http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/participants|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917111318/http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/participants|archive-date=September 17, 2010|access-date=October 30, 2010|publisher=Columbia University World Leaders Forum}}</ref>

===Other===
[[File:2014 Columbia University Earl Hall from north.jpg|thumb|[[Earl Hall]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] for its role in serving as a venue for meetings and dances of the [[Columbia Queer Alliance]].]]
The Columbia University Orchestra was founded by composer [[Edward MacDowell]] in 1896, and is the oldest continually operating university orchestra in the United States. Undergraduate student composers at Columbia may choose to become involved with Columbia New Music, which sponsors concerts of music written by undergraduate students from all of Columbia's schools.<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbia University Orchestra|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cuo/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624152440/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cuo/|archive-date=June 24, 2015|access-date=August 3, 2015}}</ref> The Notes and Keys, the oldest [[a cappella]] group at Columbia, was founded in 1909.<ref>{{Cite news|date=February 26, 1909|title=Notes and Keys Launched|work=[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]|url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19090226-01.2.9&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22notes+and+keys%22------|access-date=July 12, 2021|archive-date=July 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713062904/http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19090226-01.2.9&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22notes+and+keys%22------|url-status=live}}</ref> There are a number of performing arts groups at Columbia dedicated to producing student theater, including the Columbia Players, King's Crown Shakespeare Troupe (KCST), Columbia Musical Theater Society (CMTS), NOMADS (New and Original Material Authored and Directed by Students), LateNite Theatre, Columbia University Performing Arts League (CUPAL), Black Theatre Ensemble (BTE), sketch comedy group Chowdah, and improvisational troupes Alfred and Fruit Paunch.<ref>{{cite web|title=CUPAL: Member Organizations|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cupal/#members|access-date=April 16, 2011|publisher=Columbia University of Performing Arts|archive-date=December 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228114347/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cupal/#members|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Columbia Queer Alliance]] is the central Columbia student organization that represents the bisexual, lesbian, gay, transgender, and questioning student population. It is the oldest [[gay]] student organization in the world, founded as the Student [[homophile movement|Homophile]] League in 1967 by students including lifelong activist [[Stephen Donaldson (activist)|Stephen Donaldson]].<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.cqanyc.com/|access-date=April 16, 2011|publisher=Columbia Queer Alliance|archive-date=January 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129035232/http://cqanyc.com/|url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Queer Man on Campus: A History of Non-heterosexual College Men, 1945–2000|publisher=Psychology Press|year=2002|isbn=978-0-415-93336-0|page=167}}<!--| access-date= April 16, 2011--></ref>

Columbia University campus military groups include the U.S. Military Veterans of Columbia University and Advocates for Columbia ROTC. In the 2005–06 academic year, the Columbia Military Society, Columbia's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates, was renamed the Hamilton Society for "students who aspire to serve their nation through the military in the tradition of [[Alexander Hamilton]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbia University Hamilton Society: About|url=http://www.advocatesforrotc.org/columbia/hamilton.html|access-date=April 11, 2011|archive-date=January 14, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114002745/https://www.advocatesforrotc.org/columbia/hamilton.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Columbia has several secret societies, including [[St. Anthony Hall]], which was founded at the university in 1847, and two senior societies, the [[Nacoms and Sachems]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sedgwick|first=John|date=October 9, 2015|title=Inside the Legal Intrigue at Columbia's Elite, Secret Campus Society|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10/saint-anthony-hall-columbia-secret-society|access-date=July 13, 2021|website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|language=en-US|archive-date=May 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513214904/https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10/saint-anthony-hall-columbia-secret-society|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite news|date=April 29, 1984|title=Quiet Columbia Groups 'Tap' Seniors|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/29/nyregion/quiet-columbia-groups-tap-seniors.html|access-date=June 13, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713081602/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/29/nyregion/quiet-columbia-groups-tap-seniors.html|url-status=live}}</ref>