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A Message from the Dean
We are pleased that you have visited our Office of Minority Affairs on the web. We hope to provide you with a brief look at Columbia along with information about applying for admission. Columbia actively seeks to increase the number of students from traditionally underrepresented groups in its ranks through an energetic recruitment program. This is one of the graduate school's most important goals. Unquestionably, a diverse student body and faculty improve scholarship at all levels. More importantly, the nation is in dire need of scholars from traditionally underrepresented groups who will bring their talents to bear in research and teaching at the university level.
I can tell you that graduate school provides an intellectually exhilarating and challenging experience. If you are fortunate, you will find a field that fascinates you and which elicits from you a passionate commitment. Tour our web site carefully, then come visit us personally to get a better sense of what we offer. Once you have identified the programs you find most exciting, we encourage you to speak directly with their faculty for a more comprehensive understanding of what advanced study in those particular fields entails.
Graduate school is hard work and will call upon resources you may not realize you have. But it is also the door to many paths, the preparation for action instead of reaction, the opportunity to exercise your creativity and to acquire self-confidence and a strong sense of what you are about. In the continuing analysis, graduate school provides the first synthesis, the assembly of the mind, and the habits that will carry you forward under your own steam.
Columbia has much to offer you, and we hope you will consider us. We look forward to your further inquiry.
Henry C. Pinkham
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
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