When President Donald Trump’s administration sent Columbia a list of demands in March amid negotiations over canceled federal funding, one of the requested changes focused on reshaping the way the University conducts disciplinary proceedings.

Mario Torres and Lester Wilson, Columbia Facilities workers who were inside Hamilton Hall during the April 30, 2024, occupation of the building, sued pro-Palestinian protesters on April 25 for battery, assault, and conspiracy.

A judge ordered on April 11 that Columbia can proceed with responding to a March letter from a Senate committee requesting information about Columbia’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. The order, signed by U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, Law ’04, came the day after the University’s lawyer wrote that Columbia would not include any student records or identities in its response.

Board of trustees vice chair Dean Dakolias, SEAS ’89, and trustee Keith Goggin, Journalism ’91, took questions from Columbia community members in a rare appearance at a Wednesday town hall at the Lee C. Bollinger Forum Auditorium organized by the University Senate.

In a March 21 email to the Columbia community, former interim University President Katrina Armstrong announced that the University had sent a document detailing a list of planned administrative actions and policy changes to the Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, and General Services Administration.

Professor Benjamin Breyer was grappling with concerns last spring about the required course he teaches at Barnard. He felt like First-Year Writing was not flexible enough for the diverse educational backgrounds of his students. He also worried, he said in an interview with Spectator, that the class did not effectively teach writing and research as skills for every discipline and job, from art to software engineering to medicine.

Columbia AI held its inaugural AI Summit, a series of artificial intelligence-related panels, speakers, and workshops hosted across the University’s three campuses, on March 4. The all-day event closed with a keynote address from Sami Haddadin, the executive director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence.