Juliette Verlaque

When Elsa Lama, SVA ’18, chose to attend Columbia’s Masters of Fine Arts Visual Arts program in 2016, she was drawn by the promise of participating in an interdisciplinary program with renowned faculty, peers, and the resources of an Ivy League university.

Barnard transfer students discussed the unique challenges they face when acclimating to the Barnard community at a Student Government Association town hall on Tuesday night.

Two years after their vote to unionize, eight health workers at Primary Care at Columbia remain without a contract and have not received a pay raise since they began pursuing unionization.

Though Barnard emphasizes the professional and academic value of internships, the college’s policies regarding internship credit and the limited number of grants available fail to alleviate the burdens imposed by unpaid internships, particularly for low-income students.

At a Columbia University College Republicans event on Tuesday, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix discussed unionization in the context of the ongoing Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME.

Student-Worker Solidarity has accused Barnard of breaking its own code of conduct following the group’s demonstration at President Sian Beilock’s inauguration ceremony in Riverside Church on Feb. 9.

Barnard will implement a flat rate for upperclassmen single and multiple occupancy rooms—with the exception of studio singles—starting next year, Dean of the College Avis Hinkson, BC ’84, announced in an email on Tuesday.

Dana Canedy, the first female administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, discussed her career in journalism and her perseverance through personal tragedies at Barnard on Tuesday night.

Barnard President Sian Leah Beilock was inaugurated as Barnard’s eighth president and shared her vision for the college’s future amid the interruptions of pro-union protesters at Friday’s ceremony in Riverside Church.