Martha MacCallum blasted Columbia University President Minouche Shafik after student protestors ignored the deadline she set for them to leave their encampment.
“There has been this discourse that Columbia is this hotbed of antisemitism, but it’s just a bunch of nerds sitting on the ground playing games, chanting and doing homework,” said one student who has been at the college protest camp.
All of the New York House Republicans have asked for Minouche Shafik to step down.
Columbia University students are calling for classes to become virtual and urging the administration to do more to assure public safety as anti-Israel protesters invade campus in a tent encampment. Columbia students Friday wrote in a letter that they do not feel safe as chaos descended upon the Ivy League campus. Anti-Israel protesters refuse to leave the "Gaza Solidarity'' tent encampment until the school meets their "demands" including divesting from companies that do business with the Jewish...
Columbia's president, no stranger to complex challenges, walks tightrope on student protests
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik's leadership is under fire
By ANNIE MA AP Education Writer Columbia University president Minouche Shafik is no stranger to navigating complex international issues, having worked at some of the world’s most prominent global financial institutions. At the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, for example, she tackled both the European debt crisis and the Arab Spring. It remains
By ANNIE MA AP Education Writer Columbia University president Minouche Shafik is no stranger to navigating complex international issues, having worked at some of the world’s most prominent global financial institutions. At the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, for example, she tackled both the European debt crisis and the Arab Spring. It remains
Columbia President Minouche Shafik is now privileging pro-Hamas protesters over the rest of the community — and firing her must be just the start of rooting out the school's institutionalized antisemitism.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) gave Columbia University President Minouche Shafik advice while visiting the campus on Monday, encouraging her to ask the former presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania “what not to do” when it comes to handling the rise of antisemitism. Moskowitz spoke during a press conference with Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), […]
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) said that, according to “so-called pro-Israel students” at Columbia that he met with when he visited campus last week, the antisemitism they have faced on campus “has been
A Las Vegas substitute teacher got into a fight with a high schooler whom he had asked to leave the classroom for using a racial slur.