Forbes ranked Columbia second on its 2026 “America’s Top Colleges” list released in August after it analyzed 500 colleges that “offer the best educational, financial and career outcomes for all students.”

For her entire life, Peggy Mitchell has lived in Morningside Heights in Columbia-owned housing, crossing College Walk, the University’s main thoroughfare, to access Broadway and utilize the green space for her dogs Watson and Max.

As the class of 2029 pack their bags and head to Morningside Heights, they are set to enter Columbia at a time when its campus has been—and remains—in the national spotlight.

Months after Cluely, the Columbia student start-up that enables AI to “cheat” in job interviews—and eventually “everything”—went viral, two other Columbia students have launched a tool that also involves AI, but strives to prevent cheating on anything.

Dozens of faculty and researchers from the University have begun gathering every Monday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at both the Morningside campus and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center Haven Plaza in one-hour silent vigils since May 5. The vigils aim to demonstrate solidarity with students and colleagues “who have been abducted and persecuted by the government for constitutionally protected speech.”

Thousands of West Harlem residents hit the polls last week to cast their ballots early for the high-stakes Democratic mayoral primary that has mobilized voters throughout the city.

The General Studies Elections Task Force announced the results of the 2025-26 General Studies Student Council election in a Thursday email to General Studies students. The task force reported the largest voter turnout in GSSC history with 737 total voters. Oscar Wolfe, GS/JTS ’27, who is currently the vice president of policy, will serve as GSSC’s next student body president.