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Columbia University loses ranking over dubious data
FILE - A woman walks on the Columbia University campus, Monday, March 9, 2020, in New York. U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from its 2022 edition of Best Colleges. The publisher said in a statement Thursday, July 7, 2022, that the Ivy League institution failed to substantiate certain 2021 data it previously submitted, including student-faculty ratios and class size. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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Columbia graduate student fatally stabbed, second man wounded in New York City
A New York City police officer and crime scene investigators work at the scene of a stabbing in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 in New York. Police say a Columbia University graduate student was fatally stabbed and another man was wounded near the university’s upper Manhattan campus. (Craig Ruttle /Newsday via AP)
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Columbia University taking slave-owning doctor’s name off campus dorm
Bard Hall, a Columbia medical school dormitory, which is named after Dr. Samuel Bard, a prominent New York doctor who owned slaves, at Columbia University in Manhattan, on Aug. 28, 2020. Now — nearly 90 years after opening the dormitory, amid a summer of protests against racial injustice and as elite universities and other institutions continue to confront their ties to slavery — his name is about to come off. (Kevin Hagen/The New York Times)
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