On Friday, Columbia University’s Interim President, Katrina Armstrong, released a statement responding to the Trump administration’s yanking of $400 million in federal funding over the treatment of Jewish students on that campus by pro-Hamas rioters.
As expected from an ivory-tower academic, the statement was a masterpiece at talking a lot without saying anything.
Today, we were notified of federal action from Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) cancelling $400 million in federal funding to the University. The federal agencies cite “the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”
There is no question that the cancellation of these funds will immediately impact research and other critical…
