Columbia bows to Trump administration, hoping to restore federal funding
Columbia bows to Trump administration, hoping to restore federal funding
The measures include a mask ban, new authorities for campus police officers and scrutiny of the Middle East studies department.
Columbia's interim President Katrina Armstrong announced she will ban masks on campus, with exemptions for health or religious reasons, train three-dozen campus police officers with authority to arrest people, and appoint a new senior vice provost who will conduct a “thorough review” of the Middle East studies department.
The moves came amid unprecedented pressure on the Ivy League university from the White House. Earlier this month, the federal education department moved to terminate $400 million in federal funding for Columbia, citing what it called "relentless violence, intimidation and antisemitic harassment" on campus.
Federal education officials then sent Columbia a detailed list of demands for the funding to be restored.
idiots. youre attempting to bargain with terrorists.
they are fucking dismantling your funding source, what the fuck is wrong with these people?
Columbia effectively committed to a punitive line that threw its student protesters under the bus last year; this is, unfortunately, not a very surprising development with that in mind
Yeah, it's not like this was some agonizing choice but the Columbia administration. They already weren't on their students' side.
Right? They're bargaining themselves into extinction.
If anyone continues to enroll there and shows up with a shocked pikachu face on my rss how they got stripped of everything for protesting, I'm just gonna add them to the FAFO pile I've been putting angry Trump voters at their own townhalls. Very stupid. At least with Columbia, they're not stuck with it as the only option.