Mandate
The addition of Uris Hall to the Arts and Sciences in 2023 presents a unique opportunity to re- imagine how the Arts and Sciences does research, scholarship, and teaching in the new millennium. Building on the work of the prior Uris Committee, the new committee will develop an academic vision for the Arts and Sciences’ use of Uris Hall as a prelude to the future revitalization of the entire Morningside Campus. Specifically, the Committee is charged with exploring how the building may be reconfigured to provide shared infrastructure to support twenty-first century research, teaching, collaboration, and the dissemination of knowledge. Issues that might be considered include: supports for interdisciplinary work, including the possibility of space for working groups focused on shared themes; attention to state-of-the art classrooms and library services and spaces that serve the emerging needs of faculty and students and propel digital learning, collaboration, and innovation; social spaces that foster community; conference facilities open to all Arts and Sciences units; the bringing together of academic units that reflect the intellectual interests of many partners and constituencies. The building will alleviate some existing space needs, but it must do more. It must be designed and populated in a way that helps to realize the best future of the Arts and Sciences.
- Members
- RESOURCES
- AGENDA
- MINUTES
- REPORTS
- A&S/LIBRARIES COMMITTEE
- EPPC URIS CLASSROOM SUBCOMMITTEE
- A&S RFP FOR URIS SPACES
- DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE
Members of the Committee
Committee Co-Chairs
Howard, Jean | Professor of English and Comparative Literature | |
Tolstoy, Maya | Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Faculty (Interim), Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences |
Committee Members (in alphabetical order):
Humanities
Cole, Michael | Professor of Art History and Archaeology | |
Griffin, Farah | Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies | |
Washburne, Christopher | Associate Professor of Music |
Social Sciences
Bearman, Peter | Professor of Sociology | |
Huber, John | Professor of Political Science | |
Smith, Pamela | Professor of History |
Natural Sciences
Gonzalez, Ruben | Professor of Chemistry | |
Hobert, Oliver | Professor of Biological Sciences and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics | |
Zheng, Tian | Professor of Statistics |
Libraries
Rockenbach, Barbara | Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning |
Ex Officio
Alonso, Carlos | Vice President for Graduate Education, Dean of GSAS, Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures | |
Becker, Carol | Dean of The School of Arts, Professor of the Arts | |
Rosen-Metsch, Lisa | Dean School of General Studies, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences | |
Valentini, James | Vice President for Undergraduate Education, Dean of Columbia College, Professor of Chemistry | |
| Villalobos, Eugene | Executive Director, Space Planning, Facilities | [email protected] |
Wingard, Jason | Dean of the School of Professional Studies, Professor of Professional Studies |
Students
Ford, Mike | Student Representative, GSAS | [email protected] |
Johnson, Aja | Student Representative, Columbia College | [email protected] |
| Veitch, William | Student Representative, School of General Studies | [email protected] |
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Staff
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| Keen, Carolyn S. | Special Assistant to the Executive Vice President, Arts & Sciences | [email protected] |
Razaghian, Rose | Dean of Academic Planning and Governance |
Resources
- Arts & Sciences Space Report
- URIS committee presentation (3/30/16)
- Business and Economics Library Report
- URIS 2016 Library Use Data (xls)
Agenda
Minutes
A&S/Libraries Committee
Committee Charge
The Uris Library Joint Steering Committee, co-chaired by Ann Thornton, Vice Provost and University Librarian, and Jean Howard, the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, will convene in the spring term of 2021 to set the course for program and design development of the spaces shared by the Library and Arts and Sciences in Uris Hall. The committee will evaluate, among other things, the opportunities for student and faculty space conducive to innovative forms of research and teaching, and the question of when and if outside consultation might be useful to the program design process. It will be informed by the report of the Uris Visioning Committee from 2019 and by ongoing consultation with faculty, students, research librarians, CTL and other research and teaching supports on campus.
Executive Sponsors
Amy Hungerford | Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences
Ann Thornton | Vice Provost and University Librarian
Co-Chairs
Jean Howard | George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities
Ann Thornton | Vice Provost and University Librarian
Members
Amanda Bielskas | Director of Science, Engineering, and Social Sciences Libraries
Jonathan Cain | Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning
Madiha Choksi | Research and Learning Technologies Librarian
Matt Connelly | Professor of History; Director, ISERP
Nicholas Dames | English and Comparative Literature
Tom DiPrete | Giddings Professor of Sociology; Director, ISERP
Carol Gluck | George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
SungYoun Ham | Senior Space Planner, Planning & Capital Project Management
Soulaymane Kachani | Vice Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation; Senior Vice Dean and Professor, Columbia Engineering
Aline Locascio | Libraries Facilities Coordinator
Reinhold Martin | Professor of Architecture; Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
Richard Peterson | Project Manager, Planning & Capital Project Management
Rose Razaghian | Dean of Academic Planning and Governance, Arts and Sciences
Victoria Rosner | Dean of Academic Affairs, General Studies
Chris Semlies | Director, Planning & Capital Project Management
Michael Tuts | Professor of Physics
Gene Villalobos | Executive Director, Planning & Capital Project Management
EPPC Uris Classroom Subcommittee
Mandate
The EPPC Advisory Group (AG) on Uris Classrooms will be making recommendations on the best utilization, upgrades and renovations AND/OR RECONFIGURATIONS of the Uris classrooms. The AG will begin by understanding the current classroom inventory, including seating capacity, seating arrangements (e.g. fixed versus flexible), and the technology provided in these rooms and how those meet pedagogical needs. The AG will work with departments, institutes and centers, to identify the types of classrooms and technologies most needed to meet the demands for modern pedagogy. In addition, the AG will explore possible scheduling models to maximize use for classes as well as provide sufficient flexibility to meet the needs of academic units for conferences. The AG will report its findings to the EPPC, department chairs and at a faculty meeting(s) and will work closely with the Uris Design Faculty Group (to be established soon) and the architects for the renovation of Uris Hall (to be selected soon).
Members
Rachel Adams | Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Teresa Aguayo | Director of Academic Administration and Finance, Department of Sociology
Jeremy Dauber | Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture | Chair
Barry Kane | Associate Vice President and Registrar
Rob King | Professor of Film in the Faculty of the Arts; Chair, Film Division
Wayne T. Lee | Lecturer in The Discipline of Statistics
Rose Razaghian | Dean of Academic Planning and Governance
Catherine Ross | Executive Director, Center for Teaching & Learning
Jutta Schmiers-Heller | Senior Lecturer in German in the Department of Germanic Languages
A&S RFP for Uris Spaces
Proposals were reviewed by the Policy & Planning Committee who made recommendations to the Executive Committe.
RFP Recipients:
TBA
Design Review Committee
Members
Denise Cruz | Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Thomas A. DiPrete | Giddings Professor of Sociology; Director, Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy
Juliana Driever | Dir, Academic Admin & Finance, Department of Classics
Jason Gould | Director of Facilities and Space Planning
Amy Hungerford | Executive Sponsor, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Rose Razaghian | Dean of Academic Planning and Governance
Josef Sorett | Professor of Religion and of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Chair, Department of Religion
Maria Uriarte | Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
Chris Washburne | Professor of Music; Chair, Department of Music
Mabel O Wilson | Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies: Director in the Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Units receiving space in Uris, including the RFP winners, will be consultants on their spaces.