The graduate student union has announced plans to strike indefinitely from all non-dissertation related activities—including grading and teaching core classes—starting Dec. 4, the week before final exams begin.

The University Senate’s Commission on Diversity emphasized the need to revisit conversations on Columbia’s free speech policies and the impact of controversial speakers on students at the senate plenary on Friday.

Departments within the Arts and Sciences at Columbia will require substantial cultural and policy-level changes in order to rectify disparities faced by women and underrepresented minority faculty when compared to their white male colleagues, according to an extensive internal report released Thursday.

Columbia’s latest endowment report show a 9.0 percent return on investments over the 2018 fiscal year, the smallest number of any of the Ivy League schools during the period, according to a statement released by the University on Wednesday.

Alejandra Matus, an investigative journalist from Chile and the Weiss Fellow for Visiting International Scholars at Barnard, delivered a speech Monday on the evolution of fake news and the responsibility of journalists in the digital age.

In an effort to reduce the mispronunciation of students’ names in the classroom, the Office of the University Registrar has rolled out a new pilot program this semester allowing students to upload recordings of their names on CourseWorks.

Following a favorable ruling by the National Labor Relations Board, postdoctoral researchers at Columbia will now be able to form the first certified postdoctoral union at a private university, the NLRB announced on Tuesday.