Columbia University agreed to the list of requests by Trump Administration to start returning 400 million dollars in the federal funds taken from the university at the beginning of this month, which is a striking concession in the Federal Government.
Trump Administration has canceled University Federal Grants 7. Martha accusing the New York School of “inactivity in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students”. The sudden cancellation of funds will end up dozens, if not hundreds, top edges, medical and scientific research projects.
But last week administration sent a letter At the university that delays nine requests that Colombia is needed to accept potentially renewed funds and saved the research.
In the University, the University has submitted to the Federal Government and published on the network on Friday, it seems that the Trump administration seems to have much of what was sought.
University agreed to prohibit students to in protests and rent 36 new campus safety officers – which will be able to arrest students – and appoint a new hanging supervision for monitoring the Middle East, South Asian and African Study.
Columbia also dedicated “greater institutional neutrality” and said that “work with the Faculty Committee to establish a policy throughout the institution, the implementation of this paragraph.” He added the University that he would review his admission procedures for “ensure impartial reception processes,” as requested by Trump Administration.
Temporary President Colombia, Katrina Armstrong, said Friday that the school responded to Trump administration to “secure continuous academic activity”.
“We have much proudly for the community, and that was the privilege to share our progress and plans,” she said in the statement. “In the spirit of large American universities, we expect Colombians to deal with a robust discussion and discussion about our path forward, and we welcome it as an opportunity to shape the future of Colombia.”
Concessions to one of the oldest and most prestigious Nation universities represent an unprecedented shift in the manner in which the Federal Government in the business of higher education institutions in the US
On Thursday, a group conducted by students who organize and lead school protests, Divest Apartheid University Columbia, he slammed the term Columbia who fall out with the trump card.
“Columbia is a refusal to take away, and even doubled, the genocide of Palestinian people in the last 17 months has done the expected reply to the Trump Administration,” Group wrote in Instagram. “Columbia has no intention of defending their students or college from government cracks on Palestinian activism, instead actively joins the fascist state to sell their community.”
Thursday 41 approximately 100 Members of the history of the University warned University against enabling administration to interfere in their policy. They compared the actions of the administration to try “Authoritarian regimes” to seek control of independent academic institutions.
“Such interventions endanger our ability to think about the past, present and future and to do so with our students, who deserve every opportunity to learn and think for themselves,” history members wrote. “Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, there would be any real historical scholarship, teaching and the intellectual community is impossible.”
The requirements of the Trump administration are the latest hit for the IVY League school, seen as an epicenter of student, pro-Palestinian demonstrations that eventually moved to life in the colleges of the Nation.
The protests asked the fierce response of the Israeli government to terrorist attacks in Hamas, who killed almost 50,000 people living in Gaza and displaced millions. Student activists have borne demonstrations in an attempt to take their universities from the company associated with the Israeli government.
For the weeks of the last spring, Columbia students organized everyday protests, have established a sting of a few dozen tents at university lawns, and at once there was an occupied university building. Dozens of students were arrested in demonstrations that have regularly represented controversial political slogons, including the river to the sea “, which some criticized as anti-Semit.
Some Jewish students joined protesters at the faculty campuses, while others said they felt like demonstrations had hated. Several Jewish students reported that they were attacked on several universities.
Allie Wong, a doctoral student who was arrested as he protested in April last year, said that, while protests were divided, she believes that the challenges facing common challenges.
“As for the student’s response, I think you will actually have many more students, because that’s no longer, you know, naughty, Israel, Palestine.” She said, relating to democracy and freedom of speech. “And I would discuss, there is no campus group that these questions do not come.”
Threats Federal Financing followed the initiation of the Ministry of Justice in February Working Group to “eradicate” what kind of call “anti-Semitic harassment in schools and at the faculty campuses.“
In the middle of the negotiation over the groovar, federal immigration officials caught at least two Columbia students who participated in protests with LED students, including 30-year-old Mahmoud Khalil. A doctoral student from India, Ranjani Srinivasan, also fled to Canada after her student visa was seized.
Mohammad Hemeida, who chair the Colombian Student Board, said that he hopes to enable Trump administration to declare victory, immigration officials will release students.
“The appearance of Columbia slaughter is not good,” he said. “But what I worry is mostly targeted students and I feel like they used it as a tactic to press the institution.”
The arrests encouraged new campus protests and raised concerns at the entire price for the injury to the Federal Government on free speech.
The School of Journalism of the University described fears as “witnesses and experiencing alarming cold.”
“It does not have to agree with the political opinions of any particular individual to understand that these threats are cut into the core of what it means to live in pluralistic democracy” JoUrbanism said in the statement Last week. “The use of deportation for the control of foreign critics is initiated in parallel with an aggressive campaign for the use of the Law on Defams in the novel – even external ways – in silence or intimidation of independent printing”.
Columbia students are on their spring break and will return to the campus next week.
2025-03-21 21:35:00