Welcome to C.O.R.E^2 (Formerly DGE)
In 2015, Diversity in Graduate Engineering (DGE) was established and, it served as a student organization to represent the melting pot of the different cultures within the Engineering Graduate School. The mission of DGE was to provide academic and social support for historically underrepresented graduate students at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Columbia University.
In 2020, the global economy experienced the novel coronavirus. This pandemic swept across communities, cities, states, towns, and provinces securing over 1 million death worldwide. Governments, businesses, and universities, including Columbia University, went to a remote platform and ultimately the outside world came to a complete chilling stop. In addition to a downward economy to being in the midst of a pandemic, George Floyd, a black unarmed male was killed by police officer. This event has been referred to what ignited the BlackLivesMatter movement in today's time.
The SEAS Office of Graduate Student Affairs began launching new initiatives to prepare student to be innovators, to become think tanks, to make changes in the world; to discover new treatments; and to become and remain ethical citizens in this global economy.
DGE wanted to make a more directed approach to address the imbalances of opportunities because one's race and ethnicity. From this moment, DGE evolved into Coalition on Race and Ethnicity in Engineering. CORE^2 began partnering with Graduate Student Affairs in their diversity initiatives, inliuding Graduate Admissions with recruiting the future talented diverse graduate engineers and together we participate in national conferences for various affinity groups. Our membership consists of MS students, PhD Candidates, and well as a few post-doctoral researchers on the Morningside campus. Through our outreach efforts, we maintain relationships with undergraduate affinity student groups such as NSBE, AISES and SHPE to hopefully provide a consistent support group throughout all stages of scholarship at SEAS. At the graduate level we coordinate with activities with the Graduate Society of Women Engineers and the Engineering Graduate Student Council.
PURPOSE
1. To provide a support network for under-represented graduate students in the SEAS program.
2. To participate in community outreach to increase the numbers of underrepresented peoples in higher education.
3. To foster a sense of community among under-represented graduate students.
4. To provide educational and professional development to current SEAS graduate students.
In 2020, the global economy experienced the novel coronavirus. This pandemic swept across communities, cities, states, towns, and provinces securing over 1 million death worldwide. Governments, businesses, and universities, including Columbia University, went to a remote platform and ultimately the outside world came to a complete chilling stop. In addition to a downward economy to being in the midst of a pandemic, George Floyd, a black unarmed male was killed by police officer. This event has been referred to what ignited the BlackLivesMatter movement in today's time.
The SEAS Office of Graduate Student Affairs began launching new initiatives to prepare student to be innovators, to become think tanks, to make changes in the world; to discover new treatments; and to become and remain ethical citizens in this global economy.
DGE wanted to make a more directed approach to address the imbalances of opportunities because one's race and ethnicity. From this moment, DGE evolved into Coalition on Race and Ethnicity in Engineering. CORE^2 began partnering with Graduate Student Affairs in their diversity initiatives, inliuding Graduate Admissions with recruiting the future talented diverse graduate engineers and together we participate in national conferences for various affinity groups. Our membership consists of MS students, PhD Candidates, and well as a few post-doctoral researchers on the Morningside campus. Through our outreach efforts, we maintain relationships with undergraduate affinity student groups such as NSBE, AISES and SHPE to hopefully provide a consistent support group throughout all stages of scholarship at SEAS. At the graduate level we coordinate with activities with the Graduate Society of Women Engineers and the Engineering Graduate Student Council.
PURPOSE
1. To provide a support network for under-represented graduate students in the SEAS program.
2. To participate in community outreach to increase the numbers of underrepresented peoples in higher education.
3. To foster a sense of community among under-represented graduate students.
4. To provide educational and professional development to current SEAS graduate students.
