Emma Buzbee

Following a favorable ruling by the National Labor Relations Board, postdoctoral students at Columbia will now be able to form the first certified postdoctoral union at a private university, the NLRB announced on Tuesday.

Though percentages of minority faculty have increased by 3.6 percent across the University over the past 10 years, percentages of black and Latinx faculty have remained largely stagnant in that same time frame, newly-released data from the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion shows.

A former Business School professor has filed a lawsuit claiming that a senior professor harassed her and delayed her research when she rejected his advances. This harassment allegedly led to her wrongful termination, the plaintiff testified in court on Tuesday.

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s practice of blocking critics on Twitter is unconstitutional, siding with the Columbia’s Knight First Amendment Institute in its lawsuit against Trump and one of his aides.

Wing-Sum Law originally chose Columbia for the same reasons that many of her fellow engineering students did: a core curriculum that would allow her to balance her engineering classes with the humanities.

About 20 student activists marched into Butler Library calling to “decolonize Columbia,” carrying signs and chanting slogans denouncing white supremacy Wednesday afternoon.

In many ways, the day Michael Tong learned he was valedictorian was just like any other. Checking his email in bed, he saw the message from Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Mary Boyce telling him he had won the award.

Columbia’s faculty, often leaders in their fields, are esteemed due to the high quality of research they produce—but their teaching ability does not always meet such a high standard.

Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences David Madigan will be stepping down from his administrative position after five years in the role, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an email Friday.