The House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday aiming to penalize universities that align themselves with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel. The bill has renewed scrutiny on a key demand raised by pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia—divesting and diclosing financial ties to Israel.

More than nine decades after the Journalism School announced its shift to graduate-only instruction in 1935 and nixed its undergraduate major, Columbia is beginning to reverse course.

Former Labor and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao will join the Institute of Global Politics at the School of International and Public Affairs as a 2026-27 Carnegie Distinguished Fellow, the IGP announced Monday.

President Donald Trump’s administration allowed for “political priorities” to influence its Title VI antisemitism investigation into Columbia, a Department of Justice whistleblower told Congress and federal agency regulators Monday.

Columbia and lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been challenging a renewed push this summer by President Donald Trump’s administration to upend the mechanisms that allocate critical federal funding to universities.

Barnard, Columbia, and Teachers College received over $8.5 million in capital grant funding from Gov. Kathy Hochul this summer for campus infrastructure projects as part of the governor’s $42.6 million annual program to fund projects at dozens of colleges and universities across the state.

Columbia is reviewing the contents of a letter from the Department of Education that calls on universities to issue a public statement by the end of the year committing to a slate of institutional reforms, a University spokesperson told Spectator on Friday.

Former “60 Minutes” correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley will be the Journalism School’s inaugural journalists in residence, the school announced Monday.