Fifth Floor Policy

Overview of the SDA-5 th Floor Student Group Resource Area

The Student Development and Activities-Student Group Resource Area is located on the 5 th floor of Lerner Hall and is available to officially recognized student groups and organizations. To obtain access to the various assigned group resources, groups must complete an application that is distributed in April of each year. A committee composed of student representatives from the student government and the Activities Board of Columbia (ABC) as well as staff from the Office of Student Development and Activities (SDA) reviews these applications and makes recommendations to the SDA Director. Space recipients are then notified of their selection in May.

Student group resources that are competitively assigned on an annual basis are specifically designated for groups that fall under the Activities Board of Columbia (ABC), as well as the Student Governing Board of Earl Hall (SGB), the General Studies Student Council (GSSC), the Columbia College Student Council (CCSC) and the Engineering Student Council (ESC).

The SDA-5 th Floor Student Group Resource Area is established as a means of providing support to these groups to be better able to conduct and manage their on-going business. As these resources are limited in nature, the policies are provided as a means of ensuring their equitable use amongst the groups that have been identified above.

Resources Available: The SDA-5th Floor Student Group Resource Area is meant to be a functioning hub of student organization activity, collaboration and exchange. To help facilitate these goals, a combination of assigned resources, reserved resources, as well as communal resources are available to recognized student groups. Following is a listing of such resources. A=Assigned, R=Reserved and C=Communal:

• Desk Top Publishing Rooms and Work Stations (A)
• Temporary Storage Room (R) (can be reserved by two student groups at a time for a period of up to 2 weeks)
• Student Group Library (A)
• Student Performance Group Costume Room (A) (managed by advisor David Milch, dm2422@columbia.edu, and CUPAL)
• File Drawers and Storage Cabinets (A)
• Photocopying Facilities (A)
• Schedulable Conference Table (R) (email sgomanager@columbia.edu to reserve the conference table space)
• Desk Top Publishing Stations (R)
• Free Play Juke Box (C)
• Lounge Areas (C)
• Mailboxes (A)

In addition, the Student Government Office (SGO) and the Office of Student Development and Activities (SDA) are also located on the 5 th floor to allow student groups more convenient advising resources. For general questions regarding the SDA-5th Floor Student Group Resource Area, please email the SGO Manager at sgo@columbia.edu. For a complete list of the SDA-5th Floor Student Group Resource Area policies, email Ty Gonz ález, Manager of Leadership Programs, at tg164@columbia.edu.