Columbia University’s new president once called Congressional hearings on campus antisemitism “Capital Hill nonsense.”
According to the WSJ, Armstrong had told the faculty that there was no ban on masks during unauthorized protests, despite agreeing to such a ban and other conditions in a statement last Friday.Armstrong rejected "any suggestion that these measures are illusory,
According to the Columbia Spectator, Shipman worked at CNN for a decade where she earned a Peabody Award for her coverage of the USSR’s dissolution. After a brief stint at NBC News, she moved to ABC in 2001 to become “Good Morning America’s” senior national correspondent.
The federal task force that pulled $400 million from Columbia said the resignation was “an important step toward advancing negotiations” to restore the funding.
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Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong is stepping down from her role leading the school, with board of trustees co-chair Claire Shipman taking her place.
The Morningside Heights university — which had become the epicenter of violent anti-Israel protests — agreed to implement a mask ban and put new leadership in charge of reviewing curriculum for
Leo Terrell, chief of the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, says Columbia University is “not even close” to meeting the Trump administration’s demands for reforms in order to return some $400 million in canceled federal funds. “There is no ...
It’s the first application cycle since pro-Palestinian protests swept the campus and the University found itself in the crosshairs of the Trump Administration.