Hartley Hall will primarily house sophomores beginning in the 2023-24 academic year, marking the first time the dorm will be available for upperclass room selection, according to the Columbia Housing website.

Several top administrators from Columbia and Barnard recently issued statements sharing condolences for and condemning the killing of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died after Memphis police officers beat him during a traffic stop.

Victor Navasky, a titan of the journalism industry and the former George Delacorte Professor in Magazine Journalism at the Journalism School, died last Monday at the age of 90 after a decades-long career.

Barnard announced in October the creation of a new Native American and Indigenous studies concentration as part of the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies.

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.

When October began, Columbia Housing was planning to hold off on providing central heat to dorm buildings because of anticipated warm temperatures. Then a cold front rolled in, and temperatures dropped. Soon after, complaints started rolling in from residents, first that the temperatures were too cold, and then—after heating was turned on in one building—that the temperature was too warm.

Indigenous students, tribal leaders, distinguished guests, and University leadership gathered in the Low Library Rotunda Monday to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

The Columbia Revolutionary Marxist Students Organization protested in front of Lerner Hall last Friday during the Engineering and Tech career fair in response to the presence of several military, government, and defense agencies.

The Tutoring and Learning Center, which provides math tutoring to high school students in Harlem by training and paying Columbia students to become tutors, will close at the end of the semester due to a lack of external and internal funding.

The performance space on the ground floor of Lerner Hall will begin to undergo renovations to create a “world-class” performance space for musical, dance, and arts-related programming and activities, the University announced just before the start of the school year.