Barnard expelled one student for their alleged participation in the occupation of Hamilton Hall last April, Columbia University Apartheid Divest wrote in a Monday Instagram post.
Mayor Eric Adams condemned the Wednesday sit-in at Milbank Hall and the Thursday pro-Palestinian protest outside Barnard’s gates in a Thursday statement on X.
The Transport Workers Union condemned student protesters from Wednesday’s Barnard sit-in for allegedly injuring a public safety responder and Barnard for “consistently ignoring officers’ safety concerns.”
Interim University President Katrina Armstrong and other Columbia administrators have been meeting “frequently” with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., and Columbia’s government relations team amid President Donald Trump’s wave of executive orders, Armstrong said at a Friday University Senate plenary.
Barnard President Laura Rosenbury announced three new changes to Barnard senior staff in a Tuesday email, continuing an era of widespread administrative turnover.
The University Senate introduced a new dual degree program between the Climate School and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the Friday plenary. No vote was required for the approval of the program because both degrees already exist.