Columbia and Barnard faculty received text messages on Monday from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asking them to complete a survey amid its ongoing Title VII investigation into the institutions, according to screenshots of the messages obtained by Spectator.

The Office of Institutional Equity accused Palestinian student activists Maryam Alwan, GS ’25, and Layla Saliba, SSW ’25, of discriminatory harassment in a January disciplinary notice for their alleged participation in writing an October op-ed published by Spectator, as well as for contributing to two Instagram posts on the Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition account. The op-ed is signed by CPSC and does not name individual students as signatories.

Staff at the National Institutes of Health have been instructed to freeze all federal grants to Columbia and a handful of other institutions until further notice, according to an internal email published by Nature and an exclusive report by ScienceInsider.

Barnard has scheduled conduct meetings for students allegedly involved in the March 11 “Jews say ICE off campus” protest and the April 2 demonstration in which Jewish students chained themselves to a gate at Columbia, according to emails obtained by Spectator, despite Barnard President Laura Rosenbury’s assurances to faculty that conduct meetings had been put on pause.

The School of General Studies is set to elect its student body president for the 2025-26 academic year when polls open on Friday. After an embattled 2022-23 school year that featured a failed impeachment and subsequent resignation, the General Studies Student Council has experienced two years of continuous leadership under Nasser Odetallah, GS ’25, and Maya Platek, GS ’25.

Dozens of faculty members and researchers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Morningside campus gathered at the Sundial Monday afternoon to rally against oversight of Columbia by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Columbia and Barnard students studying political science will only be allowed to take introductory classes at their home school for introductory credit toward their major or minor starting next academic year.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences—the unit that represents roughly 20 percent of the University’s full-time faculty and the budgetary body that oversees Columbia College, the School of General Studies, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of the Arts, and the School of Professional Studies—continues to be financially strained.

The House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary sent letters to acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, and the presidents of all other Ivy League universities on Tuesday requesting documents regarding alleged tuition price-fixing in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Dozens of demonstrators gathered at the Sundial on April 2 for a picket organized by Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers to demand open bargaining. The University refused to allow the union to broadcast its negotiations over Zoom at its March 28 bargaining session, according to the union.