NEW YORK (AP) — Below risk from the Trump administration, Columbia College agreed to implement a set of coverage adjustments Friday, together with overhauling its guidelines for protests and conducting an instantaneous assessment of its Center Japanese research division.
The adjustments, detailed in a letter despatched by interim president, Katrina Armstrong, got here one week after the Trump administration ordered the Ivy League faculty to implement these and different adjustments to be able to proceed receiving federal funding, an ultimatum extensively criticized in academia as an attack on academic freedom.
In her letter, Armstrong mentioned the college would instantly appoint a senior vice provost to conduct a radical assessment of the portfolio of its regional research applications, “beginning instantly with the Center East.”
Columbia will even bar protests inside educational buildings and the sporting of face masks on campus “for the needs of concealing one’s id.” An exception could be made for folks sporting them for well being causes.
The Trump administration pulled $400 million in analysis grants and different federal funding, and had threatened to chop extra, over the college’s dealing with of protests in opposition to Israel’s army marketing campaign in Gaza. The White Home has labeled the protests antisemitic, a label rejected by those that participated within the student-led demonstrations.
As a “precondition” for restoring funding, federal officers demanded that the college to position its Center Japanese, South Asian and African Research Division below “educational receivership for at least 5 years.”
Additionally they advised the college to ban masks on campus, undertake a brand new definition of antisemitism, abolish its current process for disciplining college students and ship a plan to ”reform undergraduate admissions, worldwide recruiting, and graduate admissions practices.”
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Columbia mentioned it had agreed to do lots of these issues, together with undertake a definition of antisemitism.
