As the University Senate celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, the policy-making body contemplated its own powers—and finally reached a compromise on the debate over next year's academic calendar.
University Senate approved a resolution that will allow students to reschedule exams on Dec. 23, formally laying to rest debate about next year's academic calendar.
Current and graduated students, former and incumbent senators, and participants in the ’68 protests joined in on a full-day program hosted by the Senate and the Office of the Provost.
Para Sharona Kahn, estudiante de la clase del 2010 de Barnard College, participar por primera vez el pasado jueves 15 de abril en la marcha “Take Back The Night” fue una oportunidad para reconocer la existencia real de la violencia sexual en Columbia. “Esto pasa en nuestro campus y estamos marchando para apoyar a nuestros compañeros”, dijo. “Claramente es un problema que no se menciona con mucha frecuencia”.
The University Senate's education committee has decided to allow students to reschedule final exams on Dec. 23 if these exams present “undue hardship.” The proposal is pending approval by the full Senate on April 30.
Founded in 1978, Take Back the Night is an internationally-held march to protest sexual violence. The event came to Barnard in 1988 without any University-endorsements or police support, but has since become an annual tradition in Morningside Heights that draws crowds from all over the city.
Council presidents presented their preferred academic calendar to the University Senate in a debate that has fallen increasingly along student-faculty lines.
