Following months of student activism, Barnard is set to join the Worker Rights Consortium, the college announced Friday.

At her first fireside chat, Barnard President Sian Beilock led a conversation on stress culture at Barnard and Columbia and heard student suggestions on how to combat it.

Barnard administrators have retracted a threat of legal repercussions made last week toward bartenders who contact new clients outside of the formal job database, clarifying that the initial message was written erroneously.

Director for Student Employment Services Cynthia Meekins told student bartenders that they may be subject to legal action if they contact new clients by email, a tack some students have turned to in order to circumvent a new, more restrictive system.

For Kelsey Hand, BC ’15, working at the student-run Barnard Babysitting Agency gave her the business skills that her liberal arts education could not.

Student-Worker Solidarity advocated for Barnard College to join the Worker Rights Consortium at the Student Government Association’s Monday meeting.

Faculty and students at Barnard have expressed enthusiasm for President Sian Beilock as she begins her tenure at Barnard, despite some lingering concerns about the search process.

The Barnard Contingent Faculty Union held a protest outside the Barnard gates on Tuesday alleging that the college violated the terms of its contract by failing to reappoint seven adjunct professors.

The Barnard contingent faculty union’s first contract has gone into effect for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Barnard’s new Milstein Teaching and Learning Center—named after Cheryl Glicker Milstein, BC ’82, and Philip Milstein, CC ’71,whocontributed$25 millionto the $150millionbuilding—is set to open in fall 2018.