Student Life

Life in New York City is an exploration and education that can be replicated in few places on earth.

Student life at Columbia Journalism School is not strictly about class work. The school is a regular host to lecture series, workshops, conferences and receptions. The school’s Stabile Student Center serves as a social hub for students with a newly renovated space that includes a café, work stations, teaching labs, conference rooms and the school library. The Student Affairs and Career Services offices are also located in this wing of the building.

Student Government

The student government of the Journalism School is run through the university chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the world's largest journalism organization. An elected board of student officers organizes events throughout the school year with the active participation from the student body. Events include parties, field trips, panels and community service projects.

Students enjoy a night out on the Upper West Side. Photo/Rebecca Castillo

In addition, the board serves as the official liaison to the faculty on student matters. For more information, e-mail spj@columbia.edu.

Columbia Student Associations

The Journalism School is also home to the Columbia Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists and has student and faculty liaisons to the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association, the National Hispanic Journalists Association, and the South Asian Journalists Association.

Students interested in developing local chapters or liaising with a national journalism association, are encouraged to contact us at dos@jrn.columbia.edu

Students interested in joining the student interest groups or chapters, should contact the student representative or faculty adviser listed below. While we encourage membership to the national organizations, it is not something we require.

Columbia J-School AAJA Student Interest Group Van Tieu, Student Liaison vtt2106@columbia.edu
Columbia Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists Marvin Anderson, Chapter President ma2913@columbia.edu
Columbia Chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists * pending chapter approval Prof. Elena Cabral, Adviser mec9@columbia.edu See bio here
Columbia J-School Lesbian & Gay Student Interest Group Leon Braswell, Adviser lb2545@columbia.edu
Columbia J-School SAJA Student Interest Group Prof. Sree Sreenivasan (faculty liaison) saja@columbia.edu, See bio here
Columbia Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Prof. Duy Lihn Tu, Adviser spj@columbia.eduSee bio here

New York, New York

Journalism students' reporting is informed by living in New York City. From the Dominican bodegas of Manhattan’s Washington Heights to the Hasidic synagogues of Brooklyn’s Borough Park, from the Irish soccer leagues of Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx to the Guyanese chutney clubs of Richmond Hill, Queens, living here is an exploration and education that can be replicated in few places on earth.

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