The Office of University Life announced 16 students as recipients of its third annual social justice mini-grants.

President-elect Nemat “Minouche” Shafik met with dozens of students at a reception in Lerner Hall on Wednesday afternoon, hours after being announced as Columbia’s 20th president. Many students reacted with optimism, acclamation, and hope for her tenure.

Columbia will no longer offer access to University group health care plans for retirees effective Jan. 1 and is instead shifting them over to Via Benefits, a private insurance company and the nation’s largest private Medicare marketplace.

Students from Columbia, New York University, and The New School gathered at the Sundial on Wednesday evening to protest Columbia’s silence on the death of Mahsa Amini and ongoing protests in Iran.

The plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against Columbia regarding misreported data to U.S. News & World Report filed an amended complaint last week, alleging the University’s misreporting stretched back further than it has admitted. The suit, which consolidates previous civil suits, was first filed in the Southern District of New York in July.

The Columbia College Alumni Association recently granted its annual Gerald Sherwin Young Alumni Award to Andrew Heinrich, CC ’13, and Julian Richardson, CC ’14, Business ’21, SIPA ’21.

The Columbia Iranian Students Association, in collaboration with the Afghan Student Alliance, held a protest on Monday as part of a global day of action for students in Iran and Afghanistan.