Researchers in limbo as Columbia bows to Trump in bid to restore federal funding

What happens to health research when 'women' is a banned word?

Scott Olson // Getty Images What happens to health research when ‘women’ is a banned word? Daniella Fodera got an unusually early morning call from her research adviser this month: The doctoral student’s fellowship at Columbia University had been suddenly terminated.  Fodera sobbed on phone calls with her parents. Between the fellowship application and scientific review process, she had spent a year of her life securing the funding, which helped…

Think Medical Research Is Safe at Columbia? Maybe. For the Time Being.

On the morning after Columbia University’s interim president resigned last week, I turned by lifelong habit to The New York Times for my first read about a major news event. Much of the article repeated details that I already knew as a longtime faculty member at Columbia’s journalism school: that Katrina Armstrong had been under withering criticism both within and outside the school for capitulating to the Trump administration’s demands in areas…

Column: Why are top universities getting federal money?

Columbia University at first appeared to have surrendered to President Donald Trump’s demands that the New York school stop coddling antisemitic and anti-Israel demonstrators. The school announced it was buckling, not on principle, but because it wants the $400 million in federal grants and contracts restored. Trump had frozen the money to get them to act against protesters. Now the protesters are protesting what Columbia’s interim president, Ka…

George Will: Government and universities battle in a contest of bad behavior

The Trump administration’s coercion of Columbia University involved reciprocal misbehavior by the school and the government. This and other threatened punishment is probably a harbinger of further unlawful behavior by a lawless government against teaching institutions that are slow learners. George Will /Washington Post Columbia was dilatory and incompetent in dealing with demonstrations that disrupted education and created a hostile campus envi…

Columbia students and alumni protest university's agreement to Trump demands

Protests against Columbia University are breaking out after the school agreed to the Trump administration's demands to change its policies to restore federal funding. NBC News' Maya Eaglin reports on reactions from students and alumni from the School of International and Public Affairs.