Columbia University\u2019s President Katrina Armstrong has resigned after pressure from Trump administration, , Heidi Zhou-Castro of Al Jazeera reports.<\/p>\n
\u201cColumbia University\u2019s President Katrina Armstrong had only had this job since August,\u201d the reporter said, adding that she is resigning amid accusations that she folded too quickly to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
Last week, Columbia announced that it would carry out a list of reforms demanded by the federal government, including giving campus police arrest powers and new oversight for the Department of Middle East Studies, they added.<\/p>\n
According to the reporter, this was in order to begin the process of restoring $400m of annual federal grants that the Trump administration cancelled for Columbia. That\u2019s about a fifth of its operating budget.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis punishment was for alleged anti-Semitism and for the university\u2019s response to encampment protesters who have been demonstrating against Israel\u2019s war on Gaza,\u201d they continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of Columbia\u2019s faculty, though, were not happy about what they viewed as their president\u2019s acquiescence without even so much as a legal battle. There\u2019s also concern that this will further embolden the Trump administration to go after other universities, which it already has,\u201d they concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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