Football opened the 2026 season hoping to return to form. After a thrilling start, the Lions look ahead to Homecoming as they ride the momentum of a winning record and explosive playmaking on both sides of the ball.

Across New York City, affordable housing is hot real estate. For decades, leaders across the five boroughs have called for the city and developers to build more housing for low- and middle-income families, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is the latest to have made it a priority.

Columbia published its 2025-26 common data sets this month, reporting demographic data for its undergraduate schools that revealed an increase in diversity at the School of General Studies, stable admissions rates for international students, and increased engagement with Greek life.

Radhika Jones, GSAS ’08, will be joining the Journalism School as an adjunct professor in spring 2027, returning to the university where she recalls her academic and journalistic lives beginning to converge.

More than nine decades after the Journalism School announced its shift to graduate-only instruction in 1935 and nixed its undergraduate major, Columbia is beginning to reverse course.

Columbia’s psychology department will offer a new minor, Justice: Theory and Practice, in the fall, according to the department’s website.

Last summer, a hacker stole data from Columbia’s networks in a major cyberattack. Now, the University says Columbia affiliates were not the only targets of the hack, and the personal data of some unaffiliated prospective students, including their Social Security numbers, was also stolen.