Columbia cedes to Trump admin demands after threat to withhold funds (apnews.com)

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Columbia University has capitulated to Trump Administration demands in order to secure federal funding. The major concessions are as follows.

> Columbia will ban masks on campus during protests.

> The University will hire 36 more on campus police officers.

> The Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Departments will be placed under Academic Receivership for 5 years, meaning the departments will be run by an outside group while the existing staff will be put under their control.

> The University will adopt a "position of institutional neutrality".

> The University will hire more Jewish academics for its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies in order to counter balance pro-Palestinian staff.

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[-] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This would be a cause student activism could meaningfully engage unlike the usual fare that'd hardly moves the needle.

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