Shalom, Columbia: The Ivy League institution is $30 million poorer after the Trump administration on Friday slashed additional grants to the university from the Department of Health and Human Services, Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson reports.
The cuts hit, among others, Jeanine D’Armiento, the chairwoman of the University Senate Executive Committee who has played a leading role in protecting students involved in the disruption of university life. D’Armiento urged former Columbia president Minouche Shafik to include them in crafting disciplinary rules, and at a university senate meeting held last year, she shut off the microphone of a colleague who said there were “groups who are supporting terrorists” on campus. Grants supporting her work account for roughly $2 million of the cuts.
“The administration is in the process of reviewing the totality of Columbia’s $5 billion in federal funding, and the fresh round of cuts…
