🎒 Campus crackdowns
Across the country, universities are firing faculty, banning student groups and using surveillance to find protesters — all while Congress and outside activists turn up the pressure. Here’s the latest…
At Columbia… Katrina Armstrong resigned as Columbia’s interim president amid backlash over campus antisemitism and the risk of losing $400 million in federal funding. (JTA)
She was replaced on an interim basis by Claire Shipman, co-chair of the university’s board of trustees and a former TV journalist. Shipman will be the school’s third president in less than a year. (New York Times)
Several Columbia alumni ripped up their diplomas at a Saturday protest organized by the School of International and Public Affairs’ Alumni for Palestine group. (NBC News)
On other campuses… Cornell University’s new Jewish president says he’s not too concerned that campus protests will trigger the kind of federal crackdown Columbia is facing. (JTA)
Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies is shaking up its leadership, with faculty heads being ousted following accusations that the center’s programming was antisemitic. (Crimson)
Yale Law School fired a research scholar after she declined to cooperate with an investigation into her alleged ties to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a group sanctioned by the U.S. (Bloomberg)
Students at the University of Minnesota protested Saturday after immigration officials detained an international graduate student. This is the latest such campus arrest; you can catch up on them all with our tracker. (New York Times, Star Tribune)
UCLA indefinitely banned Students for Justice in Palestine and suspended a similar grad student group for four years. (Los Angeles Times)
Betar US, a far-right pro-Israel group, is targeting pro-Palestinian student activists with a so-called “deport list” it says it’s sharing with Trump administration officials. (Washington Post)
Congress moved forward with a bill requiring universities to disclose more of their foreign funding — a priority for Jewish groups wary of anti-Israel influence. (JTA)
Colleges are turning to surveillance footage and search warrants to probe students linked to pro-Palestinian protests — a shift experts warn may pose risks to civil liberties. (New York Times) | 