WORK/LIFE Benefits and Resources
Overview of Human Resources
Includes an A-to-Z topic index, helpful quick links, and other resources.
Human Resources
New Faculty & Staff Checklist
Working at Columbia
Benefits overview and helpful quick links.
Benefits at Columbia
Benefits in Brief (PDF)
Overview of retirement benefits and policies.
Update personal information or review your paycheck, tax, or benefits information.
Personal and Payroll Information (myColumbia)
Useful forms and brochures.
HR contact for the Morningside Campus.
Email: hrbenefits@columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 870-2286
Fax: (212) 870-3388 (*secure*)
Fax: (212) 870-3399
1901 Interchurch, MC 7705
475 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10115
Work/Life
The Work/Life Office affirms the University's commitment to an environment that allows us to achieve excellence in our work and to have an abundant life outside of our professional endeavors. Ongoing evaluation and improvement of Columbia’s Work/Life policies, benefits, services, programs, practices, and culture are intended to enhance our experience of Columbia as an employer.
Current Work/Life offerings include:
- Family friendly policies for faculty, including the parental work load relief plan, leaves under the Family Medical Leave Act, leaves for medical reasons, child care, or compelling personal need, statutory tenure clock stoppage for nontenured faculty primarily responsible for a child less than a year old and the part-time career appointment.
- Benefits, including flexible spending accounts, primary tuition subsidy, adoption assistance, college tuition for partner, spouse, or child.
- Programs, including backup care for dependents, lactation rooms, and six affiliated childcare centers.
- Services, including School Search Service and the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium.
Current initiatives include increasing childcare availability and options, enhancing retirement planning, and developing housing assistance and building a Work/Life Web site that will be a one-stop source for work/life information at Columbia.
Officers of Instruction should consult the Faculty Handbook for details on eligibility. For additional information, please contact WorkLife@columbia.edu.
International Students and Scholars Office
Information about regulatory and documentation matters (including visas), as well as other services for our international community.
Faculty Resources and Programs
Relocation
For additional information about faculty relocation, please contact Audrey Rosenblatt, Associate Director for Budget Operations, at audrey@columbia.edu or (212) 854-6108.
Housing
The University Apartment Housing division provides information about faculty housing.
For additional information about faculty housing, please contact Kevin Fox, Assistant Vice President for Capital Planning and Space Utilization, at kf264@columbia.edu or (212) 854-3689.
With questions in regard to the Faculty Housing Assistance Program (PDF), please contact Scott Norum, Chief Administrative Officer, at swn3@columbia.edu or (212) 854-7122.
Parking
The University maintains a limited amount of commuter and 24-hour parking for faculty. The University Parking Allocations Committee makes all decisions on parking requests. Requests for parking must comply with University Parking Policy, and should be made through the University Parking Office.
For additional information about parking, please contact Kevin Fox, Assistant Vice President for Capital Planning and Space Utilization, at kf264@columbia.edu or (212) 854-3689.
Retirement
Retirement in Brief
Human Resources offers a retirement overview.
The Faculty Handbook
The Faculty Handbook provides further information about faculty retirement.
Under appropriate circumstances the Arts and Sciences negotiates for time and agreements with faculty on an individual basis in order to accommodate the needs and interests of the faculty member, within budgetary constraints. The Vice President signs all retirement agreements for faculty in the Arts and Sciences.
Faculty interested in exploring whether a retirement agreement might be possible should speak with Joan Homkow, Assistant Vice President, Human Resources Administration, at jh32@columbia.edu or (212) 854-5430.