This week on Chronversations: The presidential house owned by the college is listed for 2.7 million and Trump wins the 2024 presidential election
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0:08: Welcome back to Chronicle Conversations.
0:10: I’m your host, Aaron Guzman. For campus news
0:13: this week the house owned by the college in the Gold Coast neighborhood is currently listed for $2.7 million.
0:21: Two Columbia leaders have lived in the house including former president and CEO Dr. Kwong Wu Kim.
0:27: The college has put the former presidential residence up for sale to help cut the college’s financial deficit. After he stepped down as president and CEO Dr. Kwang Wu Kim recommended that the college sell the house at 1258 North Lasalle and the 624 South Michigan building to address a $38 million deficit
0:46: at the time. The deficit is now at $17 million.
0:50: The 624 building is currently still being occupied by the library and the bookstore
0:55: but as previously reported by the Chronicle, faculty have already started to move out this semester. With the presidential search underway since this past summer
1:04: it is unknown if the college plans to offer a housing allowance to its new president. Kim was president of Columbia from July 1, 2013 to July 1, 2024 and occupied the house for 11 years.
1:17: Former President Warwick L. Carter lived there before Kim for 13 years. Carter retired from Columbia in 2013 and died in 2017.
1:27: The current interim president of the college, Jerry Tarr, does not occupy the house but instead commutes from his own home in Flossmoor, south of Chicago.
1:37: In other news, Republican candidate Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election and will become the 47th president of the United States, serving a second term after his 2016 presidency and his loss in 2020. Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris gave a concession speech on Wednesday, November 6 and said that, “We must accept the results of this election.”
2:01: She also said that the power will be transferred peacefully in January. After Trump’s loss in 2020 to Democratic candidate and President Joe Biden, Trump refused to accept the results of the election and was impeached for inciting an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. In Chicago, almost 60% of the nearly 1.5 million registered voters cast a ballot in the 2024 election, according to the Chicago Board of Elections. Harris won the state of Illinois during the 2024 election, which has been a historically blue state.
2:35: That’s all for this week.
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2:51: I’m Aaron Guzman.
2:52: Thanks for listening.
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