Columbia University’s new president once called Congressional hearings on campus antisemitism “Capital Hill nonsense.”

Columbia University’s newly-appointed president once called Congressional hearings on campus antisemitism “Capitol Hill nonsense.” Claire Shipman recently replaced Katrina A. Armstrong as Columbia University's acting president.

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 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 ...

Columbia University has appointed Claire Shipman, a co-chair of its board of trustees, as acting president of the institution targeted by the Trump administration with major federal funding cuts. Why it matters: President Trump's administration pulled some $400 million in federal grants and contracts from the school over allegations of antisemitism during pro-Palestinian protests on the campus.

Mo., verbally sparred with liberal witness Kenneth Stern during a Senate committee hearing on antisemitism on American college campuses.