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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsColumbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal FundingArchive link: https://archive.ph/1elJh
Columbia University will cede to President Trumps far-reaching demands in negotiations over $400 million in federal funding he revoked this month, according to a memo from the school to the administration.
Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies.
Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies.
Yikes. We are moving into fascism faster day by day.
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Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding (Original Post)
newdeal2
Mar 2025
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DODI
(2,150 posts)1. I am sick to my stomach.
defacto7
(14,160 posts)2. Freedom, Liberty, Democracy
Filed away into the Columbia University ancient history archives.
AloeVera
(3,990 posts)3. Of course it did.
No more Centre for Palestine Studies. To be replaced by the Centre for Eretz Israel Studies. Brainwashing and propagandizing the next generation.
At the cost of killing the First Amendment, terrorizing, harassing and silencing pro-Palestinian students and silencing all dissent next. Oh and the degradation of higher ed and loss of academic freedom.
dalton99a
(92,076 posts)4. Message: "Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated"