Advisory Regarding Coronavirus COVID-19

In order to deliver the best and safest program for our students, all programs will move to online learning for Summer 2020. We are excited to deliver dynamic and engaging courses and cocurricular activities online. Applications remain open, and we encourage students to apply. Learn More.

Past Community Events

Date: June 18, 200

Columbia Community Scholars Lecture | A Double Pandemic: Risking Your Life for Justice, Protesting Police Brutality during COVID-19

Date: June 3, 2020

EPIC/SPS Talk: "My Story, Paved with Good Intentions"

Date: November 19, 2019

Columbia University Community Scholars Lecture and Book Launch

Date: November 13, 2019

Art and Heart: The World of Isaiah Sheffer

Date: October 17, 2019

What Is Being Done to Address Environmental Health Risks in Harlem and Northern Manhattan?

Date: June 5, 2019

Reentry and the Model Minority

Date: May 15, 2019

EPIC/SPS Talk: "What Happened to Brown’s Vision of Equal Educational Opportunity and How Can We Get Back on Course?"

Date: April 10, 2019

EPIC/SPS Talk: "Building A Healthcare System on Idjwi Island in The Democratic Republic Of Congo"

Date: March 13, 2019

Columbia Professor Walter Frisch on Arlen and Harburg's "Over the Rainbow"

Date: February 13, 2019

EPIC/SPS TALK: “A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Politics of Lillian Hellman” with Alice Kessler-Harris

Date: November 7, 2018

Columbia Community Scholars Dialogue on Wellness

Date: September 9, 2018

Sakura Park Festival

Date: June 6, 2018

EPIC Lecture Series: Engineers in America – Early History

Date: May 16, 2018

Spring 2018 Speaker Series: Columbia University on Morningside Heights - The Early Years in Postcard Views

Date: April 18, 2018

Spring 2018 Speaker Series: Eve and Adam in the Gardens

Date: April 11, 2018

Hip-Hop Education: Propelling and Preserving the Movement

Date: March 14, 2018

Spring 2018 Speaker Series: The Diaspora and The Medically Underserved: A Case for a New Approach

Date: February 21, 2018

Spring 2018 Speaker Series: Yoking Up Yoga

Date: October 10, 2018

Columbia Community Scholars Lecture: ProjectArt: How We Built the Largest Art School in America, Without Owning a Single Building

Date: August 30, 2017

Sakura Park Festival

Date: June 27, 2017

SPS Spotlight: Am I My Genes?

Date: June 14, 2017

Seeing Muslim Women Through Western Eyes

Date: June 14, 2017

SPS Sessions: The University for a Changing Global Society

Date: May 17, 2017

The Powers of Small Poems: From Ogden Nash to the Ghazal

Date: May 3, 2017

Agent Orange: The Toxin That Keeps on Giving

Date: April 26, 2017

The Police and the Community: To Protect and Serve

Date: March 7, 2017

Community Scholars Lecture: Voices From Inside America's Mass System of Punishment