Columbia University interim president steps down amid clash with Trump admin over federal funding

Interim Columbia College President Katrina Armstrong has decreased within the midst of a collision with the Trump authorities on federal financing.

“Dr. Armstrong accepted the function of interim president at a time of nice uncertainty for the college and labored tirelessly to advertise the pursuits of our neighborhood,” stated David J. Greenwald, chairman of the board of administrators, stated in a press launch on the finish of Friday on Friday. “Katrina has at all times given her coronary heart and soul to Columbia. We recognize her service and sit up for her steady contributions on the college.”

FOX Information additionally confirmed that co-chairman of the Board of Trustees Claire Shipman has been appointed because the performing college chair till the board has accomplished his presidential search. Shipman has been within the board since 2013.

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Van Armstrong is predicted to return to the Irving Medical Heart of the College in Leiden, FOX Information has realized. Allegedly, Armstrong had an excellent relationship with the Ministry of Schooling.

The Trump administration just lately obtained federal financing from Columbia College and exerted nice stress on Armstrong to make adjustments to campus.

College students of demonstrators collect in protest inside their camps on the Columbia College Campus, Monday, April 29, 2024, in New York Metropolis. (AP Photograph/Stefan Jeremiah)

Columbia stood within the coronary heart of the Anti-Israel Campus of 2024, with NYPD officers who ultimately break a barricade in Hamilton Corridor in a really revealed raid.

The present performing President Claire Shipman has written 4 bestsellers of the New York Occasions, together with the Confidence Code, the Confidence Code for Women, Dwelling the Confidence Code and Womenomics.

Shipman has a brand new guide that will probably be revealed in June, aimed toward girls and energy entitled “The Energy Code”.

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Armstrong stepped in after former Columbia President Minouche Shafik resigned in August within the midst of claims of institutional anti -Semitism.

It is a growing story. Come again for updates.