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Columbia University He seems to be ready and willing to work with President Donald Trump and his administration. Temporary President of the University. Katrina Armstrong, on Friday, issued a letter in response to Trump’s administration that reduced the school $ 400 million of federal scholarships. Federal agencies that interrupted with Columbia said it was because it is because of the “permanent inactivity of the Ivy League institution” despite the persistent harassment of Jewish students. “
In his letter, Armstrong says that the reduction of funds “will immediately affect the research and other critical functions,” but it does not reject the claims of Trump’s administration. Instead, Armstrong writes that the university reduces “very serious” cuts and is ready to work with the government on its “legitimate concerns”.
Student protesters march around their camp at the Columbia University campus, Monday, April 29, 2024, New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
“When I accepted the role of temporary president in August 2024, I knew that Columbia needed resetting from the previous year and the chaos camp and protest at our campus,” Armstrong wrote. “The university was also to recognize and repair the damage to our Jewish students, who were targeted, harassed and made to feel insecure or undesirable in our campus last spring.”
In the part of his letter, Armstrong acknowledges that Columbia University The disciplinary procedure “previously only existed on paper,” seemingly took the murder of former President Columbia Minouche Shafik.
In August 2024, Shafik resigned after dismissing the University for months of anti-Israeli protests, including a large camp at the center of his campus and taking over the building.
The Pro-Palestinian rally is held on the stairs of Lowe library on the basis of Columbia University on April 2, 2024 in New York. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
On Friday, Trump’s administration announced that it would abolish about $ 400 million federal scholarships Columbia over the school handling of anti -Semitism.
The White House later published Tweet with the phrase “Shalom Columbia”, probably nods a message that Trump sent to Hamas earlier a week.
The reduction of the fund followed only a few days after the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), Justice (DOJ), Education (DOE) and the US Directorate for the General Services (GSA) announced the initiation of “comprehensive inspection” of federal scholarships to Columbia. Agencies have cited a recently formed joint working group for the fight against an investigation of anti -Semitism whether Columbia has violated the Civic Rights Act with its inaction on the harassment of Jewish students.
“For too long, Columbia has given up on the obligation of Jewish students studying in their campus,” Linda McMahon wrote in a statement. “Today, Columbia and other universities show that we will no longer tolerate their awful inactive.”
Members of the Anti-Israeli mobs broke into Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on April 30, 2024. (Alex Kent/Getty Images)
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Columbia University has experienced a renewed anti-Israeli activity in the last few weeks. In January, students were inserted into Israeli history and split leaflets with anti -Semitic and grumpy rhetoric.
The students were later expelled, causing protests at the Columbia sister school, Barnard. Multiple protesters were arrested after they took over the Barnard College Library in protest for expulsion.
