Mission

Columbia Urban Experience (CUE) is a pre-orientation program for BC, CC, JTS, GS and SEAS students that strives to empower incoming first-years to explore what it means to be effectively engaged in one's community through direct service in the city of New York. We aim to combine the worlds of academic analysis and volunteerism by simultaneously performing direct service in the community while engaging with the issues that are currently challenging Columbia University, Harlem, and New York City at large. Through its leaders, CUE seeks to ease the first-years' transition to college, and to provide valuable mentoring that lasts well beyond the CUE week. As the school year begins, CUE fosters an ongoing evaluation of service, while maintaining the CUE family that will support and inspire CUE-ers in their leadership and social justice endeavors at Columbia University and beyond.