Columbia agrees to government demands in bid to restore funding

Jonathan Allen - Reuters - 21/03
Among the most contentious of the nine demands, Columbia agreed to place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies department under a new official, the memo said, taking control away from its faculty.
  • Trump administration had moved to cut funding without reforms
  • Columbia appoints vice provost to Palestinian studies, other programs
  • Hires special officers with power to make campus arrests
NEW YORK, March 21 (Reuters) - Columbia University has agreed to a series of changes demanded by the Trump Administration as a precondition for restoring $400 million in federal funding the government pulled this month amid allegations that the school tolerated antisemitism on campus.
The university released a memo outlining its agreement with President Donald Trump's administration hours before an extended deadline set by the government was to expire.

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Columbia acquiesced to most of the administration’s demands in a memo that laid out measures including banning face masks on campus, empowering security officers to remove or arrest individuals, and taking control of the department that offers courses on the Middle East from its faculty.
The Ivy League university's response is being watched by other universities that the administration has sanctioned as it advances its policy objectives in areas ranging from campus protests to transg...
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