University President Minouche Shafik’s decision to authorize the New York Police Department’s April 18 sweep of the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” which led to the mass arrest of over 100 protesters, has left many community members stunned.

The Journalism School held a panel discussion on April 8 with Motaz Azaiza, a Palestinian photojournalist who has built a large social media following for his on-the-ground coverage in Gaza, to discuss the conditions of journalists working in the Gaza Strip.

The School of General Studies will issue Latin diplomas starting with the May 2024 graduating class, a change from the previous English ones, School of General Studies Dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch, GS/JTS ’90, announced in a Monday email to the college community.

Roughly 50 students participated in an art build demonstration at the Sundial on Thursday organized by multiple pro-Palestinian student organizations, including Columbia University Apartheid Divest and the Columbia chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.

Columbia updated its regulations regarding the use of generative artificial intelligence in classrooms over the summer, calling the unauthorized use of AI tools “one of the most serious offenses a student can commit.”

When an email popped up in her inbox about Columbia’s School of General Studies, then-community college student Charissa Ratliff-D’addario, GS ’23, decided last-minute to submit an application. The All-USA Phi Theta Kappa Academic Scholar was excited to find out in spring 2018 that she would be attending the school the next fall.

The Columbia Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race Student Advisory Board hosted its first rally of the semester at the Sundial on Thursday.