Columbia University says it will prioritize fighting anti-Semitism on campus shortly after the federal government cancels around $400 million worth of federal funds.
Katrina Armstrong, interim president of the New York-based university, told the university community in an email Friday evening that she was a Colombian audience working with the Trump administration to address the issue of anti-Semitism. It has been reported.
“Anti-Semitism, violence, discrimination, harassment and other actions that violate our values ​​or disrupt education, learning, or research are opposed to our mission,” Armstrong wrote. “We must continue to work to address these unacceptable instances of behavior on campus. We must work every day to get better.”
“That’s why Columbia can take serious action to combat anti-Semitism on campus, and this is our number one priority,” Armstrong wrote.
Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, Department of General Services cancel A large grant and contract to Columbia University on Friday in the “first round of action” against the university, citing “continuous omissions in the face of permanent harassment of Jewish students.” More cancellations could continue, the agency jointly said.
The federal joint task force fighting anti-Semitism told Armstrong on March 3 that it was considering federal funding for Colombia in an investigation into possible civil rights violations, but added that “Colombia is not responding to the task force.”
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The cuts in funding “intouch almost every corner of the university,” Armstrong wrote, “stimulating anxiety and concern throughout our community.” (Related: Trump hacks taxpayer funds at Ivy League Schools over Pro Terrorist Protestor issues)
“There is no doubt that cancellations of these funds will immediately affect university research and other important functions, and will affect the care of students, faculty, staff, research and patients,” Armstrong told the university community.
Nevertheless, the university’s “mission as a great research university remains unshakable,” she added.
When he became interim president in August 2024, Armstrong said, “I knew Columbia needed a reset from the previous year and the confusion of campus campus campus and protests,” and “We had to acknowledge and acknowledge the damages to Jewish students who felt uncomfortable or unwelcome last spring on campus.” It has been reported.
According to Fox News, Armstrong admitted that Columbia University’s disciplinary process “previously only existed on paper,” and that it was “previously existed on paper.” Shafik resigned on August 14, 2024 after only a year of helm.
“The only way we can achieve that goal is to look honestly and deeply into our failures and shortcomings, not just our accomplishments, but also our failures and shortcomings, and ask ourselves how we can improve,” Armstrong writes.
Armstrong sought “a unified Colombia, a focus on our mission and values.”
Columbia University was the epicenter of the pro-Palestinian protests that won over 30 US universities. The protests seized Israel’s catastrophic “Iron Operation Sword” response to Hamas in Gaza following the October 7, 2023 lightning terrorist attack on Israel, and encouraged the Palestinian government to resign.
Khymani James, a student at Columbia University, won a ban from campus, saying, “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
The protest was very destructive. Ivy League University has cancelled its major opening ceremony.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) entered the Columbia University campus at Shaffik’s request, cleared the protest camp and arrested several times.
