Brooke Mazurek

On a campus already in flux, Barnard students gathered at a town hall meeting Wednesday night to discuss changes in the school’s general education requirements, the Nine Ways of Knowing.

On the eve of a highly-anticipated announcement Tuesday afternoon—when, according to sources close to the selection process, the next president of Barnard will be named—students and faculty described the college’s relationship to Columbia and its financial future as the key issues on Barnard’s horizon.

The future of New York City’s public schools was up for discussion Tuesday night at a Teachers College symposium on equal education opportunities.

Between the tote bags and reusable Blue Java mugs, the eggs served in Columbia University’s dining facilities could become the newest target of the University’s “Go Green” initiative.

Only 50 percent of children in low-income communities—half of 13 million children nationwide—will graduate high school. This statistic was pondered at an event last night featuring Michael Rebell, an education law professor at Teachers College, and Wendy Kopp, president and founder of Teach For America.