Education Secretary Says Columbia University on Track to Unfreeze $400 Million in Federal Funds

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McMahon says the schoolโ€™s interim president acknowledged that โ€™this was her responsibility to make sure that children on her campus were safe.’

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said on March 23 that Columbia University is heading in the right direction to recovering its federal funding after the school agreed to enact several policy changes the Trump administration ordered.

In an interview with Dana Bash on CNNโ€™s โ€œState of the Unionโ€ on Sunday, McMahon said she had โ€œgreat conversationsโ€ with the universityโ€™s interim president, Katrina Armstrong.

โ€œShe said she knew that this was her responsibility to make sure that children on her campus were safe,โ€ McMahon said. โ€œShe wanted to make sure there was no discrimination of any kind. She wanted to address any systemic issues that were identified relative to the anti-Semitism on campus.โ€

The Trump administration revoked $400 million in research grants and other funding from Columbia University earlier this month, citing how the school handled pro-Palestinian protests that criticized Israelโ€™s military response to Hamasโ€™s terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Federal officials demanded nine individual changes to Columbiaโ€™s academic and security policies in order to return the funds and billions more in future grants.

On Friday, Armstrong announced that Columbia University would deploy new supervision for its Middle East studies department while overhauling its protest and student discipline rules. According to an outline posted on the schoolโ€™s website, Columbia also agreed to implement a new definition of anti-Semitism and increase โ€œintellectual diversityโ€ by hiring more at its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies.

Other changes include a ban on student masks, unless for health or religious purposes, a revised recruitment and admissions process, and strict administrative oversight from a new senior vice provost tasked with monitoring certain academic majors.

Armstrong also said the schoolโ€™s judicial board for disciplining students will consist of administrators and faculty members moving forward. Columbia will increase its public safety staff to better address disruptive situations, she added.

Byย Jacob Burg

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