Student life fees will not be used to fund Greek life at Columbia for the 2022-23 academic year after the Funding at Columbia University committee voted on Sept. 2 to not disburse money to the InterGreek Council.

Barnard Contingent Faculty-United Auto Workers Local 2110 voted on Sept. 1 to ratify a contract for increased minimum salaries and benefits for non-tenure track faculty, after over three months of bargaining with the Barnard administration.

As New York City loosens pandemic restrictions amid falling COVID-19 cases, the University has marked March 1 as the end of its voluntary affiliate testing and March 14 as the end of mandatory masking. Columbia students will return from spring break to a campus with few COVID-19 restrictions. While some students brace for what they believe might be the precursor to another potential outbreak, others are excited to take a step toward normalcy.

The University’s undergraduate admissions website prides itself on diversity. Touting the tagline of “need-blind admissions,” applicants are assured that their financial situation plays no role in their admission decision.

Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science released offers of admission on Tuesday after reviewing a pool of 6,305 early decision applicants for the class of 2026, according to Columbia Undergraduate Admissions. The admitted students hail from all 50 states and nearly 50 countries.

Following a successful transition back to in-person instruction from pandemic-era distance learning, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is exploring long-term hybrid learning options to make classes more accessible.

Columbia’s endowment earned 32.3 percent returns for the fiscal year of 2021, eclipsing both the 5.5 percent returns realized in fiscal year 2020 and the 9.9 percent 10-year returns—resulting in a total endowment value of $14.35 billion.

The University will lift capacity restrictions on all indoor gatherings, with the exception of indoor sporting events, starting Nov. 1, Provost Mary Boyce announced in an email Wednesday. Indoor sporting events will be limited to 70 percent capacity. The indoor mask requirement was extended through the end of November.