The school will ban masks at protests, empower campus police, and implement other reforms to unlock ‘long-term’ negotiations with federal regulators
Columbia University ceded to the Trump administration’s demands in the opening stages of its efforts to restore more than $430 million in federal funds, the Ivy League institution announced Friday afternoon.
Columbia agreed to ban masks for protests, empower 36 campus safety officers to arrest students, and appoint a “senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies,” the school outlined in a memo to administrators first reported in the Wall Street Journal.
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