In 2024, over 150 graduate workers taught in Columbia’s Core Curriculum. In 2025, that number dropped to zero. The Ear investigates how a contract fight led to the sudden disappearance of teaching jobs.

In this episode of the Sunday Story, reporters Owen Wang and Eesha Ramanathan sit down with City News reporter Skyler Gluck to trace the closures of campus gates over the past two and a half years and explore impacts on the community.