Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

“Gerald rosberg is an officer of the university and lee bollinger is a former officer of the university. As such, their compensation is reviewed and approved by a compensation committee comprised of independent university trustees. The committee reviews comparability data and minutes of its deliberations are recorded contemporaneously with any action. Jelani cobb, gillian lester, and nicholas lemann are not officers or key employees of the university. Their compensation is determined in accordance with the university's regular compensation practices applicable to similarly situated employees.”

“The university's document retention and destruction policy applies to all books and records held by the university.”

“The university has a written whistleblower policy which applies to the activities of the institute.”

“See narrative for part vi, line 15a above.”

“The following trustees had a business relationship: jelani cobb, gillian lester, lee c. Bollinger, nicholas lemann, and gerald rosberg.”

“Knight first amendment institute at columbia university, inc. ("the institute") has two classes of members: the columbia member and independent members. The columbia member will be the trustees of columbia university in the city of new york. The independent members will be persons who are elected or appointed or who serve ex-officio from time to time as directors of the institute. Four columbia directors / trustees will be appointed by the columbia member. The columbia directors will include deans from columbia journalism school and columbia law school. Three independent directors will be elected by the independent members, after consultation with the john s. And james l. Knight foundation.”

“See narrative for part vi, line 6 above.”

“At this time the institute has no committees with authority to act on behalf of the governing body.”

“The institute is a supporting organization for the trustees of columbia university in the city of new york ("the university"). The university has assumed responsibility for the administration of the institute. Form 990 was reviewed by the officials of the university. These officials include the university's vice president, finance and controller and representatives from the university's general counsel office.”

“The institute follows the conflict of interest policy of its member, the university. Each officer or key employee of the university who serves as a trustee or officer of the institute is subject to the "statement of university policy on conflicts of interest, is required to disclose annually interests that could give rise to conflicts. These disclosures are reviewed through an administrative process. Any disclosures that could give rise to conflicts as identified through such review are reported to an appropriate senior officer. Any substantive concerns are also reported to the chair of the university's board of trustees.”

“The institute is a supporting organization of columbia university. The university has assumed responsibility for the administration of the institute. Columbia university's governing documents, financial statements and conflict of interest policy are available on its website at www.columbia.edu.”

“For individuals disclosed on part vii with related hours information, the average hours for related organizations is 60 hours per week. Time devoted to the activities of the institute varies with the needs of the organization.”

“The consolidated financial statements of columbia university, for which the institute is a supporting organization, are audited by pricewaterhousecoopers ("pwc"), an independent auditor. The university's board of trustees has an audit committee comprised of independent trustees which is responsible for oversight of the audit, review and compilation of the university's financial statements and selection of the independent auditor for the university.”