A year after graduate students at Columbia University formed a union, the administration refuses to bargain with them. Julie Kushner of the United Auto Workers talks with NPR's Scott Simon.

Amid questions over the University’s system of shared governance, the Columbia Student Union officially convened on Feb. 6 for its first mass meeting. However, the organization—which aims to support ...

The University’s announcement comes two weeks before a Dec. 4 strike deadline set by the union earlier this semester. The union, which held a weeklong strike during spring finals in May, had planned ...

Columbia’s graduate student union voted to authorize a strike as a response to the university’s refusal to collectively bargain with students. Unless the university meets their demands ...

The university declined to voluntarily recognize the union, and when the National Labor Relations Board affirmed that graduate students at private universities were, in fact, workers in 2016, the ...

Columbia University graduate students have overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union, becoming the first Ivy League school to do so and culminating a years’ long effort to gain ...

The nationwide investigation involves seven schools, including Columbia University and Cooper Union. Related story: Students at Tri-State Area colleges say antisemitism & Islamophobia are reaching ...

A powerful union representing some of Columbia University’s custodians plans to sue the school after staffers were allegedly mistreated during the anti-Israel protests.

Columbia Ph.D. students pay no tuition and typically live in affordable, university-owned housing. In addition to stipends and compensation, we pay 100% of health-insurance premiums, including for ...

One building was Columbia's first hospital. Another building was the first women's dormitory at the University of Missouri, later a center of student life as the student union.