Columbia Business School
As the Columbia Business School outgrew its home at Uris Hall, an aging Modernist building at the heart of Columbia University’s main campus in Morningside Heights, its various populations and programs were scattered across facilities in the surrounding neighborhood. Then, in 2010, the university announced that the business school would join the arts and sciences faculties in moving to the nearby Manhattanville neighborhood of West Harlem, where it would be housed in a new facility large enough to fit its growing program. In planning since 2002, the Manhattanville site was hotly contested by community advocates and students alike, who criticized the wealthy institution’s push into one of Manhattan’s poorest neighborhoods as a form of gentrification. Negotiations with the community and a new vision of a campus integrated with urban life ultimately allowed the university’s long-awaited expansion to move forward.
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