Mission Statement
Class Notes is a forum for the serious analysis and discussion of academic affairs at Columbia. The articles published in this journal will deal with academic concerns of immediate and broad significance to the Columbia community. To achieve this aim, Class Notes will be:
1) Public: accessible online free of charge with printed copies distributed across campus. Class Notes accepts submissions and responses from students, faculty, administrators, and readers beyond Columbia. We ask all contributors to sign their work to keep the exchange of ideas grounded in honesty and sincerity.
2) Flexible: Class Notes will be published once per semester and give every contributor sufficient space to fully express a thought or idea. Editors will work with contributors to refine their work without altering or misrepresenting authors’ ideas.
3) Non-partisan: The journal welcomes the views of students, faculty, and the administration equally without bias towards any particular viewpoint.
4) Progressive-minded: Class Notes seeks to publish only articles that deal with matters of significant and broad import for Columbia as a whole, not personal grievances. A premise of our subject is that Columbia’s academic program is not fixed and static but always improvable.
The goal of the journal is not to discuss how to make the best of what we have, but rather how to change what we have into the best that it might be.
Editorial Board
Aaron Liskov (Columbia College 2011)
Arun Golkotta (Columbia College 2011)
Sam Rhee (Columbia College 2013)
Sam Gelb (Columbia College 2013)
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