As President Trump’s second term nears its end, Columbia University finds itself at the center of a national reckoning over academic freedom.

With 25% of global jobs exposed to generative AI and most developing economies lacking the infrastructure to adapt, the challenge ahead lies not just in innovation, but in inclusion.

Tracing how neoclassical design shapes what, and whose, knowledge we venerate, Sathuluri argues that true decolonization demands “landscape literacy,” a conscious rewriting of the spaces that define how we learn.