Food for Thought: Columbia University's Manhattanville Campus: How the Upper Manhattan Community Benefits
Tanya Pope, AVP, University Supplier Diversity, Columbia University Facilities & Operations
In 2003, Columbia began working with leaders in West Harlem to develop a long-term campus plan—a thoughtfully designed, predictable development blueprint that would provide Columbia with much-needed space for new kinds of academic research, while also providing the kind of middle income jobs to New Yorkers that had largely been shed by the decline of private industry in New York and other older cities. Come to hear the story of Columbia’s Manhattanville campus supplier diversity plan and Community Benefits Agreement as well as the goals and achievements of this multi-decade, best in class campus expansion built with the local community in mind.
