Breaking: Columbia lays off staff amid continued cost-cutting
The college has not disclosed the total number of staff positions eliminated this week. The layoffs include 14 members of the United Staff of Columbia College, according to the union.
Breaking: ‘We slowed the bleeding’: Columbia pushes faculty to move forward
Administrators highlighted improving enrollment and retention as faculty pressed for more details about how the college will address its financial and institutional challenges.
Breaking: College lays off 5 instructional specialists
The college currently has no plans to replace the staff who helped managed spaces such as the print center and photo studio.
Breaking: Chief of Staff Adriel Hilton leaves Columbia after less than a year
The college declined to discuss the circumstances surrounding Hilton’s departure. The move comes two weeks after longtime executive assistant Yvonne Sode was terminated after more than two decades at the college.
Editor’s Note: Why we’re changing how we identify part-time faculty
Going forward, the Chronicle will identify these employees as "adjunct faculty" on first reference. We believe this term is both accurate and easily understood by readers while aligning more closely with the terminology used by many academic institutions.
Remembering Richard Laurent
Chronicle illustrator Lilly Sundsbak, a senior illustration major, paid tribute to the longtime part-time instructor with a cartoon.
Breaking: College lays off 6 tenured faculty in fourth round of cuts
Columbia has laid off 54 full-time faculty since January 2025, including the six whose positions were eliminated on Wednesday, May 27, as part of an effort to address declining enrollment and a budget deficit that has grown to more than $40 million.
Breaking: Columbia suspends faculty sabbatical leave for a second year
Interim Senior Vice President and Provost Suzanne McBride announced the decision during the Friday, May 22 Faculty Senate meeting, citing ongoing financial pressures at the college. The move reflects broader cost-cutting across higher education, though relatively few colleges and universities have publicly announced pauses to faculty sabbaticals specifically.
Columbia creative writing professors publish new works spanning fiction and poetry
A new novel by Lisa Fishman and a restored collection of Beat poet writings edited by Tony Trigilio are bringing conversations about experimentation, literary history and publishing into Columbia classrooms.