Acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, addressed the upcoming review of the University Senate and ongoing negotiations with the federal government over $400 million in canceled federal funding at a Friday senate plenary.

Jeh Johnson, Law ’82, was elected co-chair of the board of trustees and will serve alongside David Greenwald, Law ’83, the University announced in a Monday Columbia News statement.

Franz Paasche, Law ’87, stepped down as executive vice president for public affairs and communications after serving nine months in the position, acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, announced in a Friday email to administrative staff.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a Tuesday CNBC interview that she was “very pleased” with the status of the federal government’s negotiations with Columbia and praised the University’s response to a Monday protest where students and alumni tethered themselves with bike locks to the 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue gates.

As a sold-out crowd packed into the newly furnished Ethel S. LeFrak ’41 and Samuel J. LeFrak Theatre, audience members prepared for an “extravaganza bonanza” of an evening filled with belly laughs, never-ending bits, and five of Columbia’s improv and sketch comedy groups. “Friday Night Live,” paying homage to its inspiration, was performed live from New York on April 4.

Jeanine D’Armiento, professor of medicine in anesthesiology and chair of the University Senate’s executive committee, will be allowed to run for reelection after the senate passed a motion during Friday’s plenary that declares only elections after December 2020 can be considered against the senate’s election limit amendment.

Jennifer Yu Cheng, SEAS ’03, group president and deputy vice chairwoman of CTF Education Group, was named the undergraduate School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Class Day speaker, SEAS announced in a March 26 release.

In a March 21 email to the Columbia community, former interim University President Katrina Armstrong announced that the University had sent a document detailing a list of planned administrative actions and policy changes to the Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, and General Services Administration.