Since arriving at Columbia, being "Asian" has meant something different to me than what it meant growing up in Karachi and London. There, the term referred exclusively to South Asians: people of ...

When Brian Daley, a then-high school senior in Boise, Idaho, applied to college, he knew he would study computer science. An ambitious student, Daley was a U.S. Presidential Scholars Program candidate ...

When my editor in the fall of 2023 first asked me to consider applying (“shooting”) to succeed her as Arts & Culture editor at Spectator, my instinctive reply was, “I don’t know what the fuck I’m ...

A last-minute nudge from a friend is what launched Mariam Jallow, CC ’25, into her four-year journey in student government. The outgoing Columbia College Student Council president, Jallow has spent ...

When I tell my future kids about what it was like to be at Columbia during four years of tumultuous campus life, I will tell them about my time on Spec Photo. When I was a freshman struggling to find ...

Shabana Basij-Rasikh, Afghan education activist and co-founder of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan, will deliver Barnard’s 2025 Commencement address on Tuesday, the college announced in a ...

Dragging herself across the cracked floors of her living room, Gloria Acevedo was just in reach of her phone. After making her way up to her fifth-floor apartment, the 74-year-old had fallen. Normally ...

Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from ...

This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Palestinian student and activist Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25, on Monday morning when he arrived at a ...

Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detained at the ...

In a March 21 email to the Columbia community, former interim University President Katrina Armstrong announced that the University had sent a document detailing a list of planned administrative ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, based on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s assessment that Khalil’s continued presence in the United States would have ...