Juliette Verlaque

Melissa Begg will serve as the next Dean of the School of Social Work, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an email on Wednesday.

When Cora Ko, BC ’21, transferred to Barnard this fall from a university in South Korea, she said that she quickly bonded with her fellow transfers—not over their shared experience of being at a new school, but over a collective feeling of frustration with the registrar’s office.

Dean of Barnard Library and Academic Information Services Jennifer Green presented an overview of the Milstein Center, which opened on time and on budget last Tuesday, at the first Student Government Association meeting Monday night.

University President Lee Bollinger awarded the 102nd annual Pulitzer Prizes—the highest national honors in journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition—on Wednesday in Low Library.

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.