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Dean of the College Leslie Grinage and Deputy Deans of the College Alicia Lawrence and Natalie Friedman fielded questions from Barnard Student Government Association representatives on concerns regarding the “Feel Well, Do Well @ Barnard” campaign and the deans’ new responsibilities overseeing academic and student life programs at Barnard.

Executive Director for Equity and Title IX Coordinator Molree Williams-Lendor will leave Barnard on September 20 for a position at New York University, President Sian Beilock announced in an email to the Barnard community on Thursday.

History professor Charles Armstrong cited nonexistent or irrelevant sources in at least 61 instances in his 2016 book, “Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992,” according to the findings of an investigation by the University’s Standing Committee on the Conduct of Research.

Columbia has been ranked the third top national university of 2020, tying with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University for the spot, according to the U.S. News and World Report. Princeton University and Harvard University were ranked first and second, respectively.

In the shadow of two rising buildings poised to be at the center of the Business School’s new campus, senior administrators celebrated the growth of Manhattanville and the potential it promises for interdisciplinary research. Together, they represent the culmination of a conversation that, according to administrators, has been over two decades in the making.

Columbia Health will be instituting a new two-path model for its counseling drop-in system: one option for short-term “problem solving” and another one for more urgent mental health concerns.

Exiting Provost John Coastworth highlighted multiple academic and administrative policy changes including the official Consensual Romantic and Sexual Relationship Policy between faculty and graduate students, along with updates on union negotiations in his final annual newsletter to faculty and staff on Tuesday afternoon.

It can be so easy to feel anonymous at this school—like just another faceless body wandering through halls filled with portraits and memorials of change-making alumni. We walk among teenagers who’ve accomplished more before their first year of college than many people accomplish in their lifetimes. We sit in classrooms with students who might someday change the world and with professors who may have done so already.

Following former Provost John Coatsworth’s decision to step down after an eight-year tenure and the appointment of Amy Hungerford, current dean of humanities for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale, as executive vice president for Arts and Sciences and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the upcoming year, Columbia approaches a critical juncture for its future.

After a school year rife with events prompting discussions about campus safety for black students, Barnard finds itself at a significant administrative juncture with many new faces in leadership.