The University does not plan to call the New York Police Department back to campus, University President Minouche Shafik, board of trustees co-chairs Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, and David Greenwald, Law ’83, and University Provost Angela Olinto announced in a Friday email to the community.

Columbia College Student Council sent an email to University faculty on Tuesday morning calling on them to “help hold our administrators accountable and work to foster a safe and productive environment for teaching and learning.”

Over 1,400 academics from around the world have signed a letter committing to an academic boycott of events “held at or officially sponsored by Columbia University and Barnard College” in solidarity with protesters demanding that the University divest from companies with ties to Israel.

Three Asian-West Indian employees of Columbia’s grounds and waste management departments filed a lawsuit on March 4 alleging that the University and top administrators did not properly address the employees’ reports of discrimination and retaliated against them for filing a whistleblower complaint, in violation of New York City and New York state law.

Incite at Columbia, a social science research institute, home to the Columbia Center for Oral History Research, has completed 470 interviews— totaling around 1,100 hours of audio— as part of the official Obama Presidency Oral History Project. The project, which started in 2019, aims to release all audio, visual, and transcript materials by the end of 2026.

Columbia will host two Commencement ceremonies this year, the University Commencement Office announced in an email to the community on Monday evening. A Universitywide audit identified space constraints, security, and crowd management concerns as reasons for the split.