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AROUND THE QUADSCAMPUS NEWSGREENING: Columbia is among nine NYC universities that have pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions from their campuses by 30 percent during the next decade. This improves on the target year of 2030 set by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his PlaNYC initiative to reduce citywide greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent. In addition to Columbia, the participating schools are Barnard, Cooper Union, the 23 CUNY campuses, Fordham, NYU, Pratt, St. John’s and The New School. “Over the next few months and in the coming years, under the leadership of Senior EVP Robert Kasdin and EVP for Facilities Joe Ienuso, we will be developing an implementation plan and interim targets,” said President Lee C. Bollinger in a statement. “The University has already taken several key steps, including metering individual buildings and collecting data on electricity usage; conducting energy audits; commissioning all new construction to ensure that the mechanical systems are operating at peak efficiency; and planning to retro-commission existing buildings. We are also launching a ‘green dorm’ — our first ever — this fall.” LIBRARIES: Columbia University Libraries announced in April that it received a $30,000 grant from the Florence J. Gould Foundation to support production of the final volumes of a series of unpublished papers of John Jay (Class of 1764), America’s first chief justice, architect of the Treaty of Paris and an author of The Federalist. “The Selected Papers of John Jay,” sponsored by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) and funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, is producing a multi-volume scholarly edition of Jay’s papers to be published by Columbia University Press. The edition is designed to revise and complete work begun in 1959 by the late Richard B. Morris ’30 GSAS, an eminent Jay scholar and Columbia professor. The seven-volume papers will be the first modern edition of Jay’s life and papers and will complement the online database of Jay’s papers (www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/jay). In June, the Libraries announced that it acquired the papers of University Professor Emeritus Meyer Schapiro ’24, ’26 GSAS, ’35 GSAS. Schapiro was a distinguished teacher, lecturer and scholar in the areas of medieval and modern art. The Meyer Schapiro papers are composed primarily of drafts of lectures, manuscripts and published and unpublished articles. Schapiro’s lectures were given at major academic institutions, such as Columbia, NYU, Harvard and Oxford as well as fine arts museums, and the drafts often are accompanied by corrections, notes, slide lists and research photographs. Also included in the collection is substantial correspondence with family members, arts institutions such as the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MoMA and the Jewish Museum, and other artists and intellectuals. The papers come to the RBML as a bequest from Schapiro’s late wife, Dr. Lilian Milgram Schapiro, and complement other Schapiro holdings in the RBML, including hundreds of tapes of lectures. FINANCIAL AID: Columbia has reached an agreement with the New York State Attorney General and adopted the College Loan Code of Conduct in the aftermath of the financial aid case involving David Charlow ’85. For the full text of the University statement, please see www.columbia.edu/cu/news/finaid.html
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