The president of Columbia sets aside for the new leadership at the university university | US University
The interim president of Columbia University, Katrina Armstrong, is going aside and the blanket of her foundation council, Claire Shipman, was appointed interim president, said the university in a note on Friday.
Armstrong is returning to lead the University Irving Medical Center, said Columbia University, adding: “The Co -Capendrus of the Claire Shipman Foundation Council has been appointed Interim President, with an immediate effect, and will serve until the Council completes its presidential research”.
In the announcement of the change of leadership, David Greenwald, president of the Foundation Council, said: “Katrina has always given her heart and soul in Columbia. We appreciate her service and we can’t wait to have her continuous contributions to the university”.
Shipman has been a blanket of the Board of Directors since 2023 and has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2013. A journalist and author, holds two degrees from Columbia.
“I assume this role with a clear understanding of the serious challenges in front of us and a constant commitment to act urgently, integrity and collaboration with our faculty to advance our mission, implement the necessary reforms, protect our students and support the academic freedom and the opening of an investigation.
The abrupt departure of Armstrong only arrives a week after the university transferred to the pressure By the Trump administration after withdrawing $ 400 million in federal funding among the accusations that the school tolerated anti -Semitism on the campus.
The University has published a reminder that outlines its agreement with the Trump Administration hours before a prolonged deadline by the government had expired. The memo has established measures, including the Faceemask on the campus, allowing the safety agents to remove or arrest people and take control of the department that offers courses in the Middle East from its faculty.
Among the most controversial of the nine requests, Columbia has agreed to place its department of Middle Eastern studies, southern and African Asia under a new official, said the memo. The new Vice-Provost will examine the school programs to ensure that the “offers are complete and balanced”.
The request raised alarm among the professors of Columbia and elsewhere, who feared that allowing the federal government to dictate how a department is managed would have created a dangerous precedent. The supporters of the rights have called him an assault on freedom of speech.
Armstrong had entered the role after the previous president, Minouche Shafik, had resigned following the control of his management of the protests and divisions of the Campus on the Israel-Gaza war.
Reuters contributed to this relationship
