After a decade and a half of planning and building, the 17-acre Manhattanville campus is coming to life: The Jerome L. Greene Science Center, home to Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, and the Lenfest Center for the Arts open this spring, and by 2021 will be joined by the University Forum and Columbia Business School.
The environmentally sustainable campus in a onetime industrial area has no walls or gates, and its publicly accessible green spaces and glasswalled buildings that are nearly transparent are open to the public at street level. It is a new kind of campus for a new century, says Bollinger, as important as Columbia’s 1896 move from midtown Manhattan to a bucolic site on Morningside Heights. In the decades following, the University and city have risen together to global preeminence.
“Universities are dazzling institutions, the proof residing in their unique longevity and in their astounding production of new knowledge over time,” Bollinger says. “Building this new campus in Manhattanville should be a time in which we demonstrate that courage and confidence in ourselves to re-evaluate what we take to be important and the roles we should assume in the world.”
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