The president of Columbia University resigns – the New York Times

Columbia University changed its president on Friday evening on Friday evening, a week after the university bowed in front of a series of requests from the Trump administration, which had moved to retain $ 400 million in essential federal funding.

The steep exit from the acting president of Columbia, Katrina Armstrong, has given way to the third university chief since August: Claire Shipman, co -chair of the university board of directors.

The University announced the departure of Dr. Armstrong and the meeting of Ms. Shipman in an email at the campus community on Friday evening. The letter thanked Dr. Armstrong for his efforts for “a period of great uncertainty for the university” and said that Ms. Shipman had “a clear understanding of the serious challenges that our community is confronted”.

Ms. Shipman, a journalist for two Columbia diplomas, was appointed acting president and assumed the first job in one of the country’s pre -eminent universities at a extraordinarily loaded moment in American higher education.

The federal government threatens to end the flow of billions of dollars to universities across the country, many of which face requests for information from agencies that go from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of Health and Social Services.

But the Punitive Approach of the Trump administration towards universities is played the most with Columbia. The university, a hub of the protest movement of the campus last spring against the war in Gaza, spent months facing the accusations that it tolerated anti -Semitic behavior, allowed anarchy to dominate and stifled the academic and political discourse.