Columbia University
Employment Office:
475 Riverside Dr, Suite 1901
New York, NY 10115
212-870-2425
Employees: 14,806
President: Lee Bollinger
Website: http://www.columbia.edu
Career Site
Columbia was founded in 1754 as King's
College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is
the oldest college in New York state and the fifth oldest in
the nation. A member of the Ivy League, Columbia is located in
upper Manhattan and ranks among the best colleges in the U.S.
Columbia has 26,399 students enrolled at its undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. Its main campus is at 116th and Broadway in an area known as Morningside Heights. The Medical Center is at 168th and Broadway.
Columbia has schools in: Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Business, Dental Medicine, Engineering, Journalism, Law, Nursing, Physicians and Surgeons, Social Work, Teachers College, and Theological Seminary.
Tuition for the 2010-11 school year at Columbia is $20,580 per semester for undergraduates.
There are over 291,000 living alumni of Columbia. The school's endowment was valued at $5.89 billion on June 30, 2009. For fiscal 2009-10, Columbia had revenues of $3.31 billion and expenses of $3.16 billion.
Full-time non-instructional employment at Columbia University was 11,136 in 2009 which includes the Medical Center. Faculty employment was 3,630.
Benefits
Benefits and policies vary depending on
whether you are faculty or support staff and if you work at the
Medical Center. More info can be seen here.
The regular workday for most support staff
at Columbia is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., excluding a one-hour period.
This schedule results in a normal 35-hour week. Service and maintenance
employees and certain other employees have different work hours.
Support staff who work in 24-hour operations receive a 10% premium
for work between 3 p.m. and 5:59 a.m. the next day.
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