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Also in the settlement is an agreement to ask prospective international students “questions designed to elicit their reasons for wishing to study in the United States,”...
When demonstrators occupied the university’s main library on Wednesday, campus security forces intervened aggressively. The occupation ended with arrests hours later.
Dr. Katrina Armstrong told a federal task force she could not remember details from the university’s report on antisemitism or her response to its recommendations.
Students chained to a gate were removed by security officials. It came as the university planned to deploy 36 officers empowered to remove people from campus.
The former television journalist and co-chair of the university’s board of trustees takes the helm at a time of significant peril for the institution.
Students sued to stop Columbia from giving their disciplinary records to the federal government, which has demanded that the university rein in demonstrations.
While some professors rallied to criticize the changes, federal officials called the university’s actions a “positive first step” in maintaining a financial relationship.
Threatened with losing $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to overhaul its protest policies and security practices.
A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.
The government has demanded drastic changes to the university before it will consider reinstating $400 million. Lee C. Bollinger, the school’s former president calls it an...
