Columbia has lost another president. Katrina Armstrong has been the interim president at Columbia since former president Minouche Shafik resigned last August. Armstrong has been attempting to negotiate with the Trump administration to get $400 million in funding restored and has taken a lot of criticism from the left for giving in to the administration’s demands. On Friday she announced she was stepping aside so a acting president could take over.
The interim president of Columbia University abruptly left her post Friday evening as the school confronted the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding and the Trump administration’s mounting skepticism about its leadership.
The move came one week after Columbia bowed to a series of demands from the federal government, which had canceled approximately $400 million in essential federal funding,…
