Trump administration issues nine demands to Columbia University to restore federal funding
The #WhiteHouse has demanded #Columbia reform its world-renowned Middle Eastern studies department and adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism
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By Areeb Ullah
Published date: 14 March 2025 13:31 GMT
"The university was also told to begin the process of placing Columbia's world-renowned Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies department under academic receivership. This process requires an outside chair, who could be appointed by the government, to run the department for five years. "
"Other demands listed by the White House include a mask ban on campus, giving "full law enforcement authority" to campus security by allowing them to "arrest and remove agitators", and reforming the admissions process for its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. "
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The #WhiteHouse has demanded #Columbia reform its world-renowned Middle Eastern studies department and adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Areeb Ullah
Published date: 14 March 2025 13:31 GMT
"The university was also told to begin the process of placing Columbia's world-renowned Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies department under academic receivership. This process requires an outside chair, who could be appointed by the government, to run the department for five years. "
"Other demands listed by the White House include a mask ban on campus, giving "full law enforcement authority" to campus security by allowing them to "arrest and remove agitators", and reforming the admissions process for its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. "
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/columbia-university-trump-issues-nine-demands-restore-federal-funding
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Trump administration issues nine demands to Columbia University to restore federal funding
The Trump administration has issued nine demands to Columbia University before it will discuss lifting the cancellation of $400m in federal funding, according to a letter sent to the university's interim president, Katrina Armstrong.Areeb Ullah (Middle East Eye)
huntingdon •
Since when did the federal govt start micromanaging a university's daily operations, let alone those of a top Ivy League school? Since Donald Trump and his Goebbels Mini-Me, Stephen Miller, thought it would be a good way to inflame the base and own the libs.
Trump doesn't give a shit about Columbia or any other Ivy League school, except to the extent it can serve as a cultural platform for an enemy. (He might also be pissed he wasn't granted admission fifty years ago.)
Heretical_i •
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