Many professors saw it as surrendering, which is a heavy -handed retaliation by the Trump administration. Academia’s conservative critics celebrated it as a good reset by Ivy League University.
Columbia University’s discount from the roster of official demands on Friday as it is widely seen as a water shedding in relations with Washington’s country colleges.
Through the design, the results will be felt immediately on the Colombian campus, where, for example, some security personnel will soon have the arrest options and an educational department, which is expected to face conservative scrutiny. But they also stand to create colleges away from Manhattan.
“Columbia is folding on social media after the university’s announcement on Friday,” Colombia is folding and other universities will follow it. “
Mr Rufo, who is close to the Trump administration and supports the fights against diversity and equity, helps conservatively crying, “he said,” They have to restore the pursuit of truth rather than ideological activity. ”
He added: “This is just the beginning.”
The end is not clear. Colombia’s steps on Friday – Interim President, Dr. Katrina, written to Dr. Katrina ARMSTOong’s campus revealed that it was primarily a preliminary bid in talks with the federal government to re -operate $ 400 million. But the Trump administration has not publicly said what other privileges they can find from dozens of other universities from Colombia or Harvid to Harvard, that it has begun to investigate since January 20.
In a letter on Friday, the Colombian Board of Trustees said it had used dialogue for “Colombia -powered” projects to change with the government. The board also insisted that it “is dedicated to the Academic Excellence of Columbia’s Academic Excellence, Open Inquiry and the Development of the Deep Value of the Deep Value of the Deep Value.”
Republicans have spent decades fighting for decades with the elite of higher education. But the Trump administration, despite being led by a president, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, has adopted a particularly viable and worthy manner.
Vice President JD Venus, who holds a degree from Yale’s Law School, has described universities as “enemies”. Mr Rufo recently said that his mission was to use federal financial support to make colleges “a terrorist terror”.
Mr Rufo’s comments came in an interview in the New York Times that day, in which the Trump administration attacked Colombia’s checkbook, because the administration said, the university did not protect students and teachers from “anti -mectic violence and harassment.” Freezing the funding is effectively threatened.
Academia made a break for a pressure campaign by President Trump shortly after being elected in November. But Washington’s tactics against Colombia last month shook university leaders from the coast to the coast.
Many people fear that the administration’s pursuit of Colombia was a test drive – a way to evaluate public reaction, assess the possibility of legal shock and create an example. On Wednesday, the administration brought another test case, saying it withdraws about $ 175 million from the pan as the university allowed the women’s swimming team in 2022 to open a common transgender woman.
In response to the administration’s demands, Columbia, a private university, which has a field of campus activity, promises to adapt to the formal definition of hatred, hire an internal security force that will create arrests and provide the university’s Middle East, South Asian and South Asian.
The result was sharp and severe among students, teachers and liberal leaders.
Colombia has abandoned the constitution, said a former Democratic candidate for New York Governor, Cynthia Nixon. The President of the National Faculty Rights Group, the President of the American Association of University Professors, Todd Wilfson, called the move the move after Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s crusade against Communism in the 1950s.
Yet this week was not clear whether the deployment of the university would be enough or not.
Federal Task Force member Liu Terrill said in a radio interview Thursday that the Trump administration was “hell” about the end of hatred. Many colleges, including Colombia, witnessed Palestinian protests during the war in Gaza last season and suffered from discussions that mean it.
“I will tell you right now that Columbia is not in my opinion – and the opinion of the Justice Department has not cleared his actions,” said Mr. “They are not near, even closer to keeping these funds undeniable.”
A spokesman for the Education Department, one of the three federal agencies named in Colombia’s ultimatum, did not respond to the request to comment on Saturday, including questions about the possible rehabilitation of the funds.
But the Republican House Committee for Education and Manpower clashed on social media: “Columbia Folds.”
The Colombian board did not mention the funds in its letter on Friday, rather than that it was responsible for addressing concerns about “hatred, discrimination, harassment and prejudice” and “is committed to creating a better environment on the campus.”
Before Colombia responded, rumors spread over campuses across the country and former students that one school or another government would be targeted.
But educational leaders have not accepted the concept of deals with the White House globally globally.
Princeton University President, Christopher L Esgarber, told “PBS Noshore” on Friday, “Education is a fundamental principle of universities. It has to be protected.” “And so I have concerns that if universities give concessions about it. And I think once you give privileges, it is not difficult to make them back again.”
Mr Isigarber, chairman of the Board of the Association of American Universities, an influential group of heavyweight schools, said he was not in Colombia’s other style. However, he and other people in Academia have noted that the government is in a well -positioned position to put pressure on major universities that have extensive research programs.
Since World War II, the government has been the most important provider of research funds. Reducing or eliminating this amount can make many universities disabled. The administration has already failed – yet to stop a funding stream – that can cost universities that conduct at least 100 million large scientific research each year.
Universities have prosecuted the proposal.
A group of Columbia law professors argued in a Widely circulated article Last weekend, the Trump administration violated federal civil rights law and constitution.
But after Colombia refused to mount in a legal battle, one of the authors, David Pozen, was trying to look at the future.
He said in an interview on Saturday, “I think everyone appreciates that President Armstrong was in an impossible position, and I think everyone is afraid that we have reached this place,” he said in an interview on Saturday, adding that his priority is to go ahead of school.
Others, including some members of the Jewish community who described the unwanted sense of a demonstration against the war in Gaza, accepted the university’s decision – or at least understood it.
“Many people do not just think that the modern research institute cannot exist without federal funding,” said Brent R Stockwell, Chair of the Colombian Department of Biological Sciences. He pointed to the importance of research in the sciences and its medical developments and the ability to improve the lives of everyday Americans.
“There is no scenario in which Colombia can be in any way in its current form if the government has been completely withdrawn,” he said. “Is it a capital to communicate? I would say it’s not.”
Dr. Stockwell added: “It is a disappointment for me that people from other educational institutions who are not subject to these pressures are saying, ‘Colombia should fight a good battle.’ They are happy to give up our funds for their values.
Liam Stack Reporting was contributed.
