Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York is the governing board of Columbia University in New York City. The board consists of 24 members and is currently co-chaired by Lisa Carnoy and Jonathan Lavine.
Structure and function[edit]
The board is governed by 24 trustees, including the president of the university, who serves ex officio. Six of the 24 candidates are nominated from a pool of candidates selected by the Columbia Alumni Association. Another six are nominated by the board in consultation with the University Senate. The remaining 12 are nominated by the trustees through an internal process.[1] The board elects its own chair; the first woman to serve as chair (and the first to chair the governing board of any Ivy League university) was Gertrude Michelson, elected in 1989.[2] The term of office for the trustees is six years and trustees serve for no more than two consecutive terms.[1]
The trustees have met in room dedicated to them in Low Memorial Library since 1897.[3] They select the President, oversee all faculty and senior administrative appointments, monitor the budget, supervise the endowment, and protect university property.[4] The trustees also oversaw the Pulitzer Prizes until 1975, when authority over the prizes was devolved to a separate board.[5]
Early history[edit]
The board of trustees was originally established in 1754 as the board of governors of King's College with 41 members, replacing the ten-member Lottery Commission appointed by the New York Assembly to oversee lottery funds allocated to the establishment of the college.[6] The board of governors originally included seventeen ex officio members, three of whom were crown officials: The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Secretary for Plantations, and the Governor of New York, as well as the senior member of the Governor's Council, the speaker of the New York Assembly, the five justices of the Supreme Court of New York, and the Mayor of New York. The President of King's College also served as a member ex officio. A further twenty-four individuals were named in the charter, serving without terms and their successors are selected by subsequent governors. College faculty were not provided seats ex officio on the board of governors, at variance with contemporary practice at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, where the faculty was engaged in the governance of their colleges, but was very much in line with practice of other colonial colleges governed by external boards.[7]
The charter permitted Protestants to serve as governors but excluded Roman Catholics and Jews. Only three members would be Anglicans: the Archbishop of Canterbury, the rector of Trinity Church, and the President of Columbia University and they were offset by four ex officio members selected from New York's Dutch Reformed Church, French Church, Lutheran Church, and Presbyterian Church.[7] In practice, the board was dominated by Anglicans, members of the Trinity Church, and the Dutch Reformed Church. Of the fifty-nine men who served as governors, only three ex officio members were not from the Anglican nor Dutch Reformed churches.
More than half of the fifty-nine New Yorkers who served as governor made their livings as merchants. The next most common occupation among the governors was law (20 percent), followed by ministers (16 percent), and there was only one doctor.[8] The governors met 102 times in 22 years and most meetings were attended by around fifteen governors. A quarter of the governors attended fewer than ten meetings, and another half were absent, leaving a core of sixteen governors. Academic matters such as faculty appointments, the curriculum, and admissions requirements were overseen by degree-bearing ministers, while governors drawing from the city's mercantile and legal ranks oversaw financial matters such as construction of collegiate buildings or the salary of the college steward. This informal division of duties survived the reorganization of the King's College into Columbia College and persisted into the 1960s.[9]
In terms of politics, the ratio of Loyalists to Patriots during the American Revolution among the governors was more than eight to one.[10]
In 1784, it became the Board of Regents of Columbia College. It was renamed in 1787 as the trustees, and arrived at its final name of The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York by an order from the Supreme Court of New York in 1912, 16 years after Columbia College was renamed as Columbia University.[3][11]
Controversies[edit]
Although the trustees usually approve faculty recommendations for hiring and dismissal of Columbia faculty, in some cases they have taken a more direct role. Notably, in 1917 they fired psychologist James McKeen Cattell for his anti-war and anti-conscription views, a case with ongoing significance for academic freedom.[12][13]
The trustees' oversight of the Pulitzer Prizes, which ended in 1975, was not without controversy. An early example of this occurred in 1921, when the trustees overruled the jury recommendation and awarded the fiction prize to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence instead of the recommendation of Sinclair Lewis for Main Street.[14] A similar controversy ensued in 1962, when the trustees overruled the jury's choice of a biography of William Randolph Hearst by W. A. Swanberg, Citizen Hearst, instead choosing to give no award in that category.[15][16]
The trustees have been blamed for the violent suppression of protestors in the Columbia University protests of 1968, after they instructed the university administration to call in the police against the protestors and later lauded the police for their efforts.[17]
In 2001, the trustees were accused of pressuring the university to water down its sexual misconduct policy, and the director of the Office of Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Education resigned in protest, claiming that the trustees had directed her not to discuss the policy changes.[18]
As with most governing boards of private universities, the deliberations of the trustees are confidential, and despite any internal disagreements the trustees generally present a unified front to the public on the decisions they have taken. A notable exception to this occurred in 2012, when trustee José A. Cabranes published a dissenting opinion on the status of Columbia College and its core curriculum within the university, in a column in Columbia's student newspaper.[19]
Current trustees[edit]
The board consists of the following members as of November 2020, according to Columbia University's official website and the biographies of the trustees:[4]
| Name | Degree | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Lisa Carnoy (Co-Chair) | B.A. 1989 | CFO of AlixPartners |
| Jonathan Lavine (Co-Chair) | B.A. 1988 | co-managing partner of Bain Capital |
| A'Lelia Bundles (Vice Chair) | M.S. 1976 | journalist, news producer, author |
| Noam Gottesman (Vice Chair) | B.A. 1986 | CEO of TOMS Capital and founder of GLG Partners |
| Claire Shipman (Vice Chair) | B.A. 1986, M.I.A. 1994 | senior national correspondent for Good Morning America |
| Rolando Acosta | B.A. 1979, J.D. 1982 | presiding justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department |
| Andrew F. Barth | B.A. 1983, M.B.A. 1985 | former chairman of Capital Guardian Trust Company |
| Abigail Black Elbaum | B.A. 1992, M.B.A. 1994 | co-founder and principal of Ogden CAP Properties |
| Lee Bollinger | J.D. 1971 | President of Columbia University |
| Dean Dakolias | B.S. 1989 | co-CIO of the credit funds group at Fortress Investment Group |
| Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. | B.A. 1978 | Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
| David Greenwald | J.D. 1983 | chairman of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson |
| James Harden | M.B.A. 1978, M.P.H. 1983 | Senior VP of Strategic Partnerships at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| Wanda M. Holland Greene | B.A. 1989, M.A. 1991 | Head of School at the Hamlin School |
| Li Lu | B.A., J.D., M.B.A. 1996 | founder and chairman of Himalaya Capital Management |
| Victor Mendelson | B.A. 1989 | co-president and director of HEICO |
| Julie Menin | B.A. 1989 | former chair of Manhattan Community Board 1, commissioner of New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection |
| Adam Pritzker | B.A. 2008 | co-founder and chairman of General Assembly |
| Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón | J.D. 2001 | partner at Winston & Strawn, former United States Ambassador to Uruguay |
| Jonathan Rosand | B.A. 1989, M.D. 1994 | Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School |
| Kathy Surace-Smith | J.D. 1984 | Senior Vice President at NanoString Technologies |
| Fermi Wang | M.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1991 | CEO and co-founder of Ambarella Inc. |
| Shirley Wang | M.B.A. 1993 | founder and CEO of Plastpro Inc |
| Sheena Wright | B.A. 1990, J.D. 1994 | CEO of United Way of New York City |
Notable past trustees[edit]
According to the University website and archives, the following people have served as trustees in the past:[20]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Organization and Governance of the University". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ Daniels, Lee A. (June 21, 1989). "Columbia Trustee Head: A Low-Key Trailblazer". Education. The New York Times. p. B7.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Who Owns Columbia? The University Trustees, Of Course". Columbia Daily Spectator. March 27, 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The Trustees of Columbia University | Office of the Secretary of the University". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ Bates, J. Douglas (1991). The Pulitzer Prize: The Inside Story of America's Most Prestigious Award. Carol Publishing Group. p. 115. ISBN 9781559720700. Search this book on
- ↑ McCaughey, Robert (2003). Stand, Columbia A History of Columbia University. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-231-13008-0. OCLC 1020285655. Search this book on
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 McCaughey (2003), p. 23.
- ↑ McCaughey (2003), p. 40.
- ↑ McCaughey (2003), p. 25.
- ↑ McCaughey (2003), p. 45.
- ↑ "Charters and Statutes" (PDF). 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Gruber, Carol Signer (September 1972). "Academic freedom at Columbia University, 1917-1918: The Case of James McKeen Cattell". AAUP Bulletin. 58 (3): 297–305. doi:10.2307/40224603. JSTOR 40224603.
- ↑ Sokal, Michael M. (2009). "James McKeen Cattell, Nicholas Murray Butler, and academic freedom at Columbia University, 1902–1923". History of Psychology. 12 (2): 87–122. doi:10.1037/a0016143.
- ↑ Oehlschlaeger, Fritz H. (November 1979). "Hamlin Garland and the Pulitzer Prize controversy of 1921". American Literature. 51 (3): 409–414. doi:10.2307/2925396. JSTOR 2925396.
- ↑ "Hail to the Loser". The Press. Time. May 18, 1962.
- ↑ Kihss, Peter (May 8, 1962). "Columbia Trustees Block Pulitzer Prize for 'Hearst'; Speculation on Motive". The New York Times.
- ↑ Bradley, Stefan M. (2010). Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s. University of Illinois Press. p. 98. ISBN 9780252090585. Search this book on
- ↑ Brownstein, Andrew (July 6, 2001). "A Battle of Wills, Rights, and P.R. at Columbia: University rethinks judicial code after civil-liberties group uses 'guerrilla warfare' to attack it". Inside Higher Education.
- ↑ Kiley, Kevin (April 3, 2012). "A Core Question: A trustee's critical column in Columbia's student paper challenges the notion that private university trustees should speak with a unified voice". Inside Higher Education.
- ↑ "The Trustees Emeriti | Office of the Secretary of the University". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "José A. Cabranes | Office of the Secretary of the University". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ Palladino, Lisa (Summer 2016). "William V. Campbell '62, TC'64, Former Trustees Chair, Lions Coach, Silicon Valley Adviser". Columbia College Today. Retrieved November 17, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ School, Columbia Business (2013-08-02). "Jerome A. Chazen '50". The Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Cloherty Named Trustee at Teachers College". www.columbia.akadns.net. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "4 Alumni Given Journalism's Highest Honors". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Stephen Friedman Elected Chair of Columbia Trustees". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "In Memoriam". Magazine. 2017-06-22. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Benjamin Horowitz | Office of the Secretary of the University". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Press Release: New Trustees Named". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Mark E. Kingdon | Office of the Secretary of the University". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Charles Li | Office of the Secretary of the University". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Anna Kazanjian Longobardo". Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Amb. Donald F. McHenry". ISD. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ Duhigg, Charles (2015-01-14). "G.G. Michelson, Macy's Executive Who Broke Glass Ceilings, Dies at 89". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on January 14, 2015. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
- ↑ "Philip Milstein Elected Trustee of Columbia University". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Trustees Elect Japan Business Executive, Alum". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Vikram Pandit | Office of the Secretary of the University". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ Inc, ExlService Holdings (2018-10-02). "EXL Announces $150 Million Strategic Investment from The Orogen Group". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Arnold Relman, Former NEJM Editor and P&S Grad, Dies". Columbia University Irving Medical Center. 2014-06-18. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Jonathan D. Schiller | Office of the Secretary of the University". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Press Release: Jerry I. Speyer, Lionel Pincus to Share Chairmanship of Trustees of Columbia University for Next Two Years". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Joan Spero | Columbia SIPA". www.sipa.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Faye Wattleton | Office of the Secretary of the University". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
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