Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong

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Stories, announcements, and updates from Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong.

For more information and announcements from the president, check out the Office of the President website. 

“Everyone needs to feel engaged, that their voices matter and that they belong here, Armstrong said in one welcome address.”

The Campus Climate Collaborative has a single goal: to embrace inclusive pluralism while rejecting discrimination and harassment as antithetical to our values and our identity.

Interim President Katrina Armstrong wrote to share an update on several steps she is taking to strengthen Columbia's leadership structure and enhance collaboration among senior leaders, faculty, and students across the University.

Interim President Armstrong shares a welcome for new and returning students, faculty, and staff as well as priorities for this semester. 

A new $400 million gift from Roy and Diana Vagelos will secure Columbia’s leadership in biomedical science research and education.

Abramson will begin her tenure at Columbia on January 1, 2025.
 

The interim president calls to “recalibrate as a community, bearing in mind the challenges of the past year and those to come, but not allowing them to define us.”

CUIMC’s Katrina Armstrong has agreed to serve as interim president.