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

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

Columbia University in Manhattan in New York City, on May 10, 2021. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

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 that the Trump administration ordered.

In an interview with Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” on March 23, McMahon said she had “great conversations” with the university’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong.