Students are calling for improvements to Columbia’s mental health resources through a petition that has garnered over 1,700 signatures from students, faculty, and affiliates.

Kimberlé Crenshaw—the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher professor of Law at the Law School and a pioneer of critical race theory, a term she coined alongside “intersectionality”—will be inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame, the organization announced in a press release last Wednesday. The induction event is expected to take place on Sept. 30, 2023, in Seneca Falls, New York.

The Columbia Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race Student Advisory Board and AZINE, an Asian-American, queer, women-centered arts and zine collective, hosted its first teach-in of the semester on Friday inside the Avery Wood Auditorium. The organizations reflected on the past 50 years of student activism, featuring testimony from activists and former students who were part of the 1996 hunger strike to introduce an ethnic studies department. Over 200 people attended.

The Columbia Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race Student Advisory Board, a collective of undergraduate students majoring or concentrating in ethnicity and race studies, has published a petition calling for the departmentalization of CSER.

The Barnard-Columbia Abolition Collective, along with the Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers, hosted its first hybrid teach-in of the semester inside Mudd Building on Wednesday.

Philippe Étienne, France’s former ambassador to the United States, will join the School of International and Public Affairs this spring as the McGovern professor of international and public affairs, SIPA announced in a press release last Monday. The professorship, established in honor of former U.S. Senator and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern, is granted to scholars who have worked to achieve international peace through communication and cooperation.

The Sunrise Movement at Columbia held a protest in conjunction with other city-based organizations against fossil fuel investment inside the Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning on Monday during an event hosted by Citibank and Beyond Barnard.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at the Law School, has devoted her academic career to fighting for the truth in Black history. As a pioneer of critical race theory—a term she coined alongside “intersectionality”—she has helped shape African American studies in higher education.

Daniel Capra, an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, has issued an apology after a video of him cursing “fuck you” at a student in his Evidence course went viral on TikTok and news media.

The Churchill Scholarship selected two undergraduate students, Brian Jiang, CC ’23, and Karen Copeland, SEAS ’23, to join the program’s 2023-24 cohort of 18 scholars from around the world. This year marks the first time in the University’s involvement in the scholarship that two scholars have been named in the same academic year.