Columbia University’s longtime legal advocate for LGBTQ rights and racial equity steps down from her role as Executive Vice President for University Life to join the Biden-Harris Presidential team.

Marcelo Velez, Vice President of the Manhattanville expansion project, was arrested on January 4 in Bergen County for alleged sexual assault of a minor.

This morning, Barnard announced the list of Phi Beta Kappa Barnard inductees for Fall 2020. They will be officially inducted into the academic honor society alongside Spring 2021 inductees sometime this spring. Congrats to them all!

Columbia Health emailed tonight that a limited number of students will be offered the COVID-19 vaccine in the first quarter of 2021.

Congratulations, Class of 2025.

President Beilock announces the CARES structure as part of changes to campus safety and wellbeing.

Dean Mary Boyce will assume the position of Provost next year.

Dean of Academic Affairs at Columbia College Lisa Hollibaugh announced changes to CC’s academic policies this afternoon in an email to all CC students, including updates to the P/D/F policy.

President Lee Bollinger announced preliminary plans for Columbia University’s Spring semester today. Classes will remain largely virtual or hybrid, and only CC and SEAS seniors will be guaranteed on-campus housing.

Earlier today, the Ivy League Council announced that it is canceling all competition for the 2020-21 winter athletic season. Practices will continue to be allowed, provided that they are in compliance with federal, state, local, and institutional COVID-19 policies. 

Columbia University has pushed back registration times to allow more time for the school to finalize spring 2021 semester plans.

Barnard announced a new step in their reopening processes in an email sent to students this afternoon. The College will begin allowing students to reserve study spaces starting next Wednesday.

Columbia is investigating an incident of antisemitism on its Morningside campus reported late Tuesday in which a swastika was painted on the steps of Low Library. University Life condemned the incident in a statement on its website.

Bold. Beautiful. Broke. Barnard. President Beilock and the Board of Trustees recently announced the appointment of new members to the college’s Board of Trustees, including a founder of Time’s Up and a supermodel-programmer.

The Columbia Daily Spectator hasn’t published any content since September 25, as the result of a halt on publishing initiated by the site’s Managing Board over Spec’s lack of a suitable gender-based misconduct policy, according to our sources.