Columbia University makes sweeping policy changes amid pressure from Trump administration

Mar 22, 2025 - 17:00
Columbia University makes sweeping policy changes amid pressure from Trump administration
A view of a lawn on the campus of New York City's Columbia University, in the aftermath of the removal of a protest encampment in the same space.

Columbia University agreed Friday to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision and overhaul its rules for protests and student discipline, acquiescing to an extraordinary ultimatum by the Trump administration to implement those and other changes or risk losing billions of dollars in federal funding.