COLUMBIA — Students returning to Columbia College this fall will find a new area to meet up: a quadrangle in the heart of campus featuring an amphitheater, an outdoor dining pavilion and a fountain.

“It feels deader than a ghost town,” said Max, 19, a sophomore at Columbia College. “Walking back on campus on a beautiful evening, you expect to see students, teeming with life.

Columbia College welcomed back students this past week for welcome week. The week leading up to the beginning of classes was filled with tons of activities for both incoming and returning students.

The college recently instituted rules limiting children on campus. The policy, which limits when and whether children can accompany parents to campus, prompted pushback and a rally last week by ...

In the spring of 1968, Columbia’s president, Grayson Kirk, rarely depicted without a pipe, moved in comparatively slow motion in response to unrest that had become an inflection point in the ...