Columbia spent $200,000 on federal lobbying between July and September, adding H1-B visa fees and caps on graduate student loans to its lobbying interests, while continuing to push for federal research funding.

After nearly two years of renovations, Columbia will reopen Hartley Hall to students in fall 2027. The building will shift from a suite-style to a corridor-style layout, with almost twice the number of doubles but far fewer singles.

A federal appeals court issued an order Tuesday protecting Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, from being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement again as he appeals his case to the Supreme Court.

Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, will appeal his case to the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court denied his request Friday for the full court to rehear a January decision that reversed a ruling releasing him from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. The Friday decision was split 6-5.

University senators called on acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, at a Friday plenary to take action against administrators who were implicated in a March 10 independent report on the “institutional failures” that enabled Robert Hadden’s decadeslong assault of patients.

The New York Police Department released body camera footage March 6 showing two police officers responding to a 911 call on Feb. 26 that reported two “suspicious males” who entered a University-owned residence. The “suspicious” individuals in question were Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who impersonated NYPD officers to arrest Ellie Aghayeva, GS ’26.