Kamala Kiem will serve as the next dean of undergraduate student life for Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia announced in a Wednesday news release.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 20 to dismantle the Department of Education in a move that emerged as a policy fixture for the president and Linda McMahon, the newly-confirmed department secretary, in his 2024 campaign.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the Department of Justice will be “looking at whether Columbia’s handling of earlier incidents violated civil rights laws and included terrorism crimes” at an event the department hosted Friday, calling the move “long overdue.”

Former University President Lee Bollinger, Law ’71, discussed Immigration and Customs Enforcement detaining Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, campus antisemitism, and government pressure in a Tuesday interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), SIPA ’03, delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. Speaking from Wyandotte, Michigan—an area just south of Detroit that she and Trump both won in the 2024 election—Slotkin discussed foreign policy, immigration, and the economy.

Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), the chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a Thursday letter to senior Columbia officials requesting that they produce disciplinary records for incidents spanning from April 2024 to January 2025, citing a “continued failure” to address antisemitism on campus.