Columbia Postdoctoral Workers-United Auto Workers met with University representatives on Jan. 26—the latest step in its three-month-long grievance process—after alleging in November 2022 that Columbia is violating its collective bargaining agreement by excluding Journalism and Law School postdoctoral workers and associate researchers from the union.

Columbia resident advisers will receive a $1,000 raise to their current $13,000 salary for the 2023-24 school year, Tara Hanna, the associate dean of undergraduate student life and executive director of residential life, announced in an email to RAs on Nov. 30.

Fifteen Barnard seniors have been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest honor society in the United States.

Two armed New York Police Department officers interrupted the proceedings of a Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers general body meeting held in Deutsches Haus at 420 W. 116th St. last Monday, according to SWC-UAW members.

As Barnard prepares for significant renovation projects on campus, the college has launched Barnard Builds, a website designed to keep students up to date on the progress of the construction.

Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature, spoke at Barnard last Wednesday night. The event quickly sold out and garnered a long waitlist, like many of her other appearances around New York since her win. According to Associated Press News, Ernaux’s appearance at Albertine Books this past Monday “drew hundreds.” In response to the overwhelming interest, Barnard also live streamed the event.

Barnard elected to not voluntarily recognize the Barnard Resident Assistant Union after 20 members of the union and five representatives from the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 153 met with Dean Leslie Grinage, Dean Nikki Youngblood Giles, a legal assistant, and other administrators on Thursday.

Barnard resident assistants delivered a letter to Barnard President Sian Beilock on Monday morning asking for voluntary recognition of their union, which was filed with OPEIU Local 153. The letter received signatures from 54 of Barnard’s 57 RAs—95 percent of the group.

After the pandemic forced Columbia’s pre-orientation and new student orientation programs to downsize for two years, the University is planning to fundamentally change the orientation experience going forward, eliminating pre-orientation programs and replacing them with "immersion experiences," which will be required for new students for the first two days of the nine-day tradition.