As the country prepared for sweeping changes in policy following the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Monday, 23,246 international students at Columbia and thousands more across the country were uniquely positioned to see the repercussions of an election in which they were ineligible to vote.

Student Veterans of America recognized the Center for Veteran Transition and Integration with its William Pearson Tolley Champion for Veterans in Higher Education Award at SVA’s national conference in Colorado Springs on Jan. 3.

Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers released a petition against a new 2024-25 payroll calendar on Nov. 20, calling the changes unfair and “poorly communicated and executed.” The petition has garnered 340 signatures as of Thursday afternoon.

The Office of the Provost announced Persuasion at Scale—a new course designed by Eunji Kim, assistant professor of political science, and Christopher Wiggins, associate professor of applied mathematics and systems biology and chief data scientist at the New York Times—as a recipient of the 2024 Cross-Disciplinary Frontiers Courses award.

The General Studies Student Council adopted a statement on Nov. 12 to pursue a Universitywide MetroCard subsidy program to support students with financial need. The proposed program comes after years of financial strain on commuter students at the School of General Studies and calls for greater transit funding from the University.

Linda Fried, dean of the Mailman School of Public Health and senior vice president of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, will step down from both positions at the end of the academic year, interim University President Katrina Armstrong announced in a Wednesday email to the Columbia community. Fried will return to a faculty position and continue to serve as director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center.

A group of anti-Zionist Jewish students constructed a “Liberation Sukkah for Palestine” on Wednesday evening around 5 p.m. on the first day of the Jewish holiday Sukkot. The group is planning to stay on the lawn for a week until the end of Sukkot, according to a member of the organizing collective.

Columbia University Apartheid Divest issued a statement in a Tuesday Instagram post apologizing for the “irrevocable harm” done to Khymani James, CC ’25, by CUAD’s April 26 Instagram post that included an apology for comments James made in January.