US EditionSuresh Garimella officially installed as UA President
- On March 24, professors protested outside Columbia University's campus gates in New York, criticizing the university's conciliatory response to funding cuts.
- Columbia University faced pressure from the Trump administration regarding insufficient checks on anti-semitism, particularly within pro-Palestinian demonstrations, leading to potential loss of US$400 million in federal research funding.
- In response to the Trump administration's demands, Columbia pledged to tighten disciplinary procedures, assert more control over academic departments, require masked demonstrators to show identification, generally disallow protests in academic buildings, and empower several dozen public security officers to make arrests.
- Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated that Columbia is demonstrating appropriate cooperation with the Trump administration’s requirements and looks forward to a lasting resolution, while Virginia Page Fortna, a political science professor, equated the events at Columbia with the erosion of democracy.
- Columbia University's concessions, including placing the Columbia University Judicial Board under the school administration's oversight and creating a new vice-provost to review curriculum and hiring processes in departments like Middle East Studies, were viewed by some professors as weakening academic independence and consolidating power in the office of the university president, resembling steps taken by authoritarian leaders.
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Suresh Garimella's installation ceremony as UA president attracts governor visit, protestors
Even though Suresh Garimella has been on the job now for five months as University of Arizona's president, an "installation ceremony" Tuesday formally made him the top official at campus. While the event went as planned it did not come…
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“Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong met with anxious faculty over the weekend in an effort to generate support, warn of the jeopardy the school faces and play down concerns that the deal the school cut with the government on Friday undermined its academic independence,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “In meetings with about 75 faculty leaders, Armstrong and her team said six federal agencies are investigating the school an…
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