Columbia University Makes Policy Changes in Response to Trump Admin’s Demands to Combat Anti-Semitism

The Trump administration had pulled $400 million in federal grants to the university over its alleged failure to address anti-Semitism.
Columbia University Makes Policy Changes in Response to Trump Admin’s Demands to Combat Anti-Semitism
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold a short rally after marching around the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" in the West Lawn of Columbia University in New York City on April 29, 2024. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Aaron Gifford
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Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong announced on March 21 that the university has agreed to implement a raft of policy changes in response to the Department of Education’s requirements for combatting campus anti-Semitism in order to receive federal funding.

The changes include a student mask ban—unless for health or religious reasons, a revised admissions and recruitment process, and strict administrative oversight from a new senior vice provost who will monitor certain academic majors that, in the past, had provided anti-Semitic instruction.

Aaron Gifford
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Aaron Gifford has written for several daily newspapers, magazines, and specialty publications and also served as a federal background investigator and Medicare fraud analyst. He graduated from the University at Buffalo and is based in Upstate New York.