Columbia President Minouche Shafik faces rising calls from Congress to step down
by The Washington Times
The Washington Times— Calls for Columbia President Minouche Shafik to resign surged Monday over what congressional critics described as her failure to rein in the virulent anti-Israel protests that have engulfed the Ivy League institution.
Columbia University—Statement from Columbia University President Minouche Shafik | Office of the President. Dear Members of the Columbia Community,. I am deeply saddened by what is happening on our campus. Our bonds as a community have been...
POLITICO—Fetterman, Scott, Banks join calls for Columbia president to step down. All of the New York House Republicans have asked for Minouche Shafik to step down.
The Guardian—Minouche Shafik: the UK peer facing choppy waters over Gaza protests at Columbia. Ex-central banker Lady Shafik, the university’s president, now faces calls to resign due to her handling of campus unrestSteering Columbia University through the choppy waters of anti-Israel student protests was never going to be easy for Minouche Shafik, a member of the UK House of Lords who took over as president of the university in New York after a period of relative calm running the London School of Economics.During her tenure as LSE director between 2017 and last year, academics largely...