In an email to students last Friday, the Student Affairs Committee highlighted extensive “troubling” changes made to the Rules of University Conduct over the summer, expressing concerns over a lack of transparency from the Board of Trustees.

On Monday, May 5, Columbia University announced Jeh Johnson as the newly elected co-chair of the Columbia University Board of Trustees. He will serve alongside co-chair David Greenwald.

Columbia’s Board of Trustees announced two new members, James P Gorman and Alisa Amarosa Wood, in a Columbia News email sent to students.

This week, SGA Rep Council heard from Barnard Trustees Jyoti Menon BC ‘01 and Marcia Lynn Sells BC ‘81 P ‘23 about the work they do on the Board of Trustees. 

It appears the protests are having an effect—according to an email sent out by the Barnard Board of Trustees, the college has agreed to consider divesting from fossil fuels; the Investment Committee will look at other options. Representatives of Divest Barnard are invited to the next meeting of the committee in December to further discuss the issue, […]

As we reported earlier this summer, we’ll have our dear old President Lee Bollinger at least through 2018, according to a statement sent out to all students this morning. The chair of our board of trustees noted that “Columbia is performing at a level and achieving a standing it has not enjoyed in many years,” […]

According to a rumor, President Bollinger just received a two ­year extension on his contract. On Friday, the Columbia University Board of Trustees voted to extend PrezBo’s contract until 2018. PrezBo was originally set to leave Low in 2016. Back in 2010, Bloomberg reported that Bollinger had “agreed with the board of trustees” to a contract that […]

From the Orientation issue of The Blue and White: Somer Omar sat down in Low Library to talk with some of the Trustees about their role at the University. The Blue and White will hold the semester’s second open meeting tonight, at 9 p.m. in the crypt of St. Paul’s Chapel. Setting: The King’s College […]