US EditionResearchers in limbo as Columbia bows to Trump in bid to restore federal funding
- President Trump canceled $400 million in funding to Columbia University over handling of student protests.
- The Trump administration was concerned about antisemitism on campus, prompting unprecedented demands for policy changes.
- Columbia announced policy changes Friday, including disciplinary process overhauls and Middle Eastern studies program supervision.
- Katrina Armstrong, Columbia's interim president, said the changes are “right for Columbia” and fundamental for safety.
- Researchers face uncertainty, with cuts slashing research and programs; a lawsuit claims free speech was violated.
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Arizona Mirror
What happens to health research when ‘women’ is a banned word?
Researchers say federal agencies have been instructed not to approve grants that include the words “women,” “trans,” or “diversity.” Photo by Getty Images via The 19th Daniella Fodera got an unusually early morning call from her research adviser this month: The doctoral student’s fellowship at Columbia University had been suddenly terminated. Fodera sobbed on phone calls with her parents. Between the fellowship application and scientific review …
The Virginian Pilot
Daily PressColumn: Why are top universities getting federal money?
Columbia University at first appeared to have surrendered to President Donald Trump’s demands that the New York school stop coddling antisemitic and anti-Israel demonstrators. The school announced it was buckling, not on principle, but because it wants the $400 million in federal grants and contracts restored. Trump had frozen the money to get them to act against protesters. Now the protesters are protesting what Columbia’s interim president, Ka…
George Will: Government and universities battle in a contest of bad behavior
The Trump administration’s coercion of Columbia University involved reciprocal misbehavior by the school and the government. This and other threatened punishment is probably a harbinger of further unlawful behavior by a lawless government against teaching institutions that are slow learners. George Will /Washington Post Columbia was dilatory and incompetent in dealing with demonstrations that disrupted education and created a hostile campus envi…
Columbia students and alumni protest university's agreement to Trump demands
Protests against Columbia University are breaking out after the school agreed to the Trump administration's demands to change its policies to restore federal funding. NBC News' Maya Eaglin reports on reactions from students and alumni from the School of International and Public Affairs.
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