When University President Lee Bollinger first introduced the independently-funded Columbia World Projects in April of last year, he touted the initiative as an effort to generate impactful solutions to real-world problems.

All Columbia classes on Wednesday have been canceled due to weather conditions, the University announced in an email and a text late Tuesday evening.

Columbia has removed neuroscience professor and co-director of the Mind Brain Behavior Institute Thomas Jessell from his administrative posts due to violations of “University policies and values,” according to a University spokesperson.

At a Columbia University College Republicans event on Tuesday, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix discussed unionization in the context of the ongoing Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME.

At the graduate student fireside chat on Tuesday evening, University President Lee Bollinger discussed sexual assault prevention strategies, Columbia’s refusal to bargain with the graduate student union, and the University’s stress culture.

Undergraduate English majors will now have the option to receive both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in five years total, instead of six.

Columbia College announced a new partnership with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, CC ’73 and Law ’76, to introduce the Eric H. Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights last Friday.

University President Lee Bollinger emphasized Columbia’s stance on freedom of speech in light of recent protests surrounding controversial speakers at the first graduate fireside chat of the semester on Tuesday evening.