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Columbia University will overhaul the aspects of his management after the pressure of Trump’s administration that has dropped the fear of limit to academic freedom in the United States.
Katrina Armstrong, a temporary president Columbia, emphasized a number of measures on Friday – including centralization of disciplinary proceedings against students and appointment of senior officials to “review” her regional studies, starting with those who cover the Middle East.
“At all times, we are guided by our values, putting academic freedom, free expression, open research and respect for everyone at the forefront of every decision we make,” Armstrong said in a statement
The move, which criticized the Faculty of Faculty and the National Academic Association Ivy League, followed after a fierce campaign led by Republicans stating anti -Semitism at their campus in New York, who caused protests after the Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Federal officials have withdrawn $ 400 million in financing from Colombia Earlier this month, he threatened to reduce future financial support, unless the University quickly met a number of reform requests.
This caused a week of intensive negotiations that included the pressure of Columbia’s lawyers to prevent academic associations that launched the legal challenges of validity of the Trump administration.
AND measures The announced on Friday included initiatives such as centralizing student disciplines, bans of masks that hide the identity of the protesters and the appointment of a senior Vice-President for the review of “all aspects” of leadership, the curriculum and the non-urete college meetings, and ensures that the “comprehensive and balanced and balanced” programs.
However, the University has stopped fulfilling the Government’s requests to impose a formally “academic receipt” to the Department of Central East, South Asian and African Studies for five years and abolish its judicial committee. Instead, the president will have much more solid control over the membership of the Committee.
Michael Thaddeus, Vice President of the Colombia Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, called the measures “deeply disappointing and alarming”.
Speaking in a personal capacity, he said: “The appointment of a new senior Vice -President for Regional Studies should not be used for the police content of research and teaching on controversial topics in Columbia. This would hit the center of our academic freedom.”
Lynn Pasquerella, president of the Association of American College and University, said: “This is undermined by the strength of American higher education, which assumes freedom from the unjustified invasion of the Government and the unnecessary political influence on the curriculum.”
Klim’s care of Republicans and some academics that many US universities dominated the faculty with more progressive opinions, Columbia also pledged to expand her search for a new faculty to ensure the intellectual diversity on the offer and scholarship of our course. “
It noted that there was a recent fall in the Jewish and African -American enrollment, and said that we would “carefully question these questions.”
