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Columbia University will check the side of governance under the pressure of the Trump administration, which has been afraid of restrictions on academic freedom throughout the United States.
Katrina Armstrong, a temporary chairman of Columbia, briefly explained a series of measures to centralize the disciplinary procedures for students on Friday and to deal with the Middle East, and to appoint senior officials to “review” local research programs.
Armstrong said in a statement that “we always respected all the things of academic freedom, free expression, public investigation, and all of our decisions.”
The measures, accused of being accused of professors and National Academic Association of Ivy League Institutions, continued the intense campaign led by the Republican Party calling for anti -Semitism at New York City Campus, following the attack on October 7, 2023 in Israel. Israel has reached an offensive in Gaza.
Federal officials threatened to reduce their future financial support if they withdrew their funds in Colombia earlier this month and universities did not meet a series of reforms.
As a result, a one -week pressure was triggered by a one -week intense negotiations that included the pressure of Columbia lawyers to prevent the academic association from starting the legal issue of the Trump administration’s demands.
that action Initiatives were included, including centralizing student discipline announced on Friday, prohibiting masks to hide the identity of protesters, appointing senior vice -presidents, reviewing “all aspects” of leadership, curriculum, and non -executive professors, and providing a “comprehensive and balanced” program.
However, the university did not meet the government’s request to impose a formal “academic receipt” for five years in the Middle East, South Asia and African research departments, and failed to abolish the Judicial Commission. Instead, the president will be much more strictly controlled by the board membership.
Michael Thaddeus, vice president of Columbia Branch of the American University Association, said that this measure is “profoundly disappointing and amazing.”
He said in his personal ability and said: “The appointment of a new senior vice president for regional research should not be used to the police about the study and teaching of Columbia’s controversial topics.
Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American University Association, said: “This weakens the strengths of US higher education, assuming freedom from excessive political effects on unfair government invasion and curriculum.”
Columbia nodded the concerns of the Republicans and some scholars that many American universities with more progressive opinions were dominated by faculty. Columbia also promised that the search for the new faculty will be expanded to ensure intellectual diversity over our process proposals and scholarships.
Recently, the Jewish and African American registration have recently been stagnant and said, “We will investigate this problem closely.”
