Columbia College Today (CCT)
Columbia College Today (CCT) is the alumni magazine of Columbia College, the undergraduate liberal arts college at Columbia University in the City of New York. First published in 1954, it is now published three times a year by the Columbia College Office of Alumni Affairs and Development for College alumni, faculty, parents, students and friends. Issues include profiles of alumni, professors and students; College news; book excerpts; letters from senior staff; Class Notes; Bookshelf; Obituaries; and first-person accounts, along with event coverage (e.g., reunion, Homecoming).
CCT Online Archive, 1954-2025
Thanks to a gift from the board of the Columbia University Club Foundation, CCT and the Columbia University Libraries recently digitized back issues from 1954 through and including Summer 2025 and made them available on the Internet Archive. This donation was made in recognition of the 18 and half years that Alex Sachare CC 1971 was CCT's editor (1998-2016).
CCT Current Issues, 2025-present
Issues from Fall 2025 to the present are available on the CCT website.
CCT WCKR Audio
The Fall 1986 issue of CCT celebrated the 45th Anniversary of WKCR, Columbia's student radio station. As part of the comprehensive coverage, the issue included a vinyl-like record.
Highlights of King's Crown Radio offers a wide range of audio samples from WKCR's archives: a station break in 1941-1942; an interview with Fidel Castro, 1958; the first stereo sign-on, 1964; University President Grayson Kirk on academic freedom, 1954; the Columbia vs. Princeton Ivy League basketball championship game, 1968; a Louis Armstrong station promo, 1970-1971; and live coverage from the "bust" of the spring 1968 campus occupation. The audio was produced and narrated by James C. Katz CC 1972, BUS 1980, CCT's then-editor.
CCT Records
In September 2021, the CCT staff transferred to the University Archives the photographs and some research files used for the production of this alumni magazine. The Columbia College Today records include photographs of former students (not from their student days), class reunions, faculty and adminstrators, and Columbia campus views and events. The alumni files, the largest series in the collection, may include photographs, articles, newspaper clippings, press releases, memorial invitations, obituaries, and correspondence.
Records are available at the Rare Books & Manuscript Library by appointment only. Learn more about making an appointment.
CCT Paper Issues
The University Archives holds a mostly complete run of CCT's print issues.
Print issues are available at the Rare Books & Manuscript Library by appointment only. Learn more about making an appointment.