Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders chided Democrats and called on students to take ownership of leftist political movements during a speech at Riverside Church Monday night.

Board of Trustees Chair Jonathan Schiller: Schiller leads the 24-member board of trustees, appoints the president and senior administrators, makes investment decisions, and has the final say on all University decisions.

Long a topic of advocacy and activism on campus, mental health on campus was given a new level of urgency in the past year, with at least six student deaths since last September adding to perennial concern surrounding Columbia’s unique culture of stress.

Student activism has placed Columbia squarely at the forefront of a larger national movement to reduce sexual assault on college campuses in recent years, with advocates leading a push to change University policies to better support survivors and make it easier to report assault.

As President Donald Trump’s agenda has been chaotically implemented in the past eight months, with sweeping changes to immigration law, health care, and foreign policy often announced overnight, impacts have been felt almost immediately on Columbia’s campus at every turn.

Columbia students will have the opportunity to “feel the Bern” later this month when Bernie Sanders stops by Morningside Heights during the New Student Orientation Program. 

A former employee of Columbia’s Office of the University Chaplain has alleged that they faced discrimination for their Muslim faith in a complaint filed with the New York City Commission on Human Rights last month, Spectator has learned.

Columbia and Paul Nungesser, CC ’15, have agreed to settle a lawsuit that he filed against the University in 2015.

University of Chicago Executive Vice Provost Sian Leah Beilock has been named Barnard College’s eighth president, according to an announcement sent to the Barnard community Monday afternoon by Chair of the Board of Trustees Jolyne Caruso-FitzGerald, BC ’81.

When Samantha Wiener arrived at Columbia as a first-year, she envisioned a single, tangible goal for her time as a student.