Columbia’s endowment rose to $15.9 billion in fiscal year 2025, marking a 12.4 percent return on its endowment, the University announced Thursday. The endowment increased by 7.43 percent compared to fiscal year 2024.

Tamara Hache: "With these epics, we might have an expectation of, you know, sort of a more hypermasculine, I don’t know, feel to them. Because of our own expectations, again, as 21st-century readers, of what an epic is, right? But when we go and we look closer at them, we see that this is not the case, right?"

When Katrina Dzyak, a postdoctoral Core Curriculum lecturer, teaches Homer’s “The Iliad” in her Literature Humanities class, she resists centering discussion around male glory and honor. Instead, she said that “the center of the Iliad” lies in the intimacy between the Greek warriors Achilles and Patroclus.

A U.S. District Judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers against President Donald Trump’s administration for its cancellation of $400 million in federal funding to Columbia.