Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University and a key figure in transforming a part of Upper Manhattan, is stepping down after more than two decades, the longest tenure in the Ivy League.
Bollinger, 75, will leave in June 2023 and remain at the school to teach full-time, he said Thursday in a statement. He joined Columbia in 2002 from the University of Michigan.
Bollinger raised $13 billion and expanded the school’s footprint with a new 17-acre development in Manhattan, north of Columbia’s main Morningside Heights campus. It’s now home to the Columbia Business School. The move changed the neighborhood, which had become a collection of warehouses, garages
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