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ARCHIVE: New York – 3 September 2024
1. Various, entrance to Columbia University
2. Various of pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Columbia University
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ARCHIVE: New York – 24 April 2024
3. Various of protesters’ encampment at Columbia University
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ARCHIVE: New York – 22 April 2024
4. Close of tents are erected at the Pro-Palestine protest encampment, with a sign reading (English): "Gaza Solidarity encampment"
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Khalil, lead negotiator, Columbia University Apartheid Divest:
"The university led us to lead us to this situation, unfortunately, through bringing the police here. That was the last thing that the students wanted, that the faculty wanted that, was very evident today. And the faculty walkout in support of those students who were unjustly suspended who were also arrested by NYPD."
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ARCHIVE: New York – 15 August 2024
6. Various, outside the maid gate at Columbia University
STORYLINE:
Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus, the university announced Wednesday.
Under the agreement, the Ivy League school will pay a $200 million settlement over three years, the university said. It will also pay $21 million to settle investigations brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
“This agreement marks an important step forward after a period of sustained federal scrutiny and institutional uncertainty," acting University President Claire Shipman said.
The Trump administration pulled the funding, because of what it described as the university’s failure to squelch antisemitism on campus during the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023.
Columbia then agreed to a series of demands laid out by the Republican administration, including overhauling the university’s student disciplinary process and adopting a new definition of antisemitism.
Wednesday’s agreement — which does not include an admission of wrongdoing — codifies those reforms while preserving the university’s autonomy, Shipman said.
The school had been threatened with the potential loss of billions of dollars in government support, including more than $400 million in grants cancelled earlier this year.
“The settlement was carefully crafted to protect the values that define us and allow our essential research partnership with the federal government to get back on track," Shipman said. "Importantly, it safeguards our independence, a critical condition for academic excellence and scholarly exploration, work that is vital to the public interest.”
As part of the deal, Columbia agreed to a series of changes previously announced in March, including reviewing its Middle East curriculum to make sure it was “comprehensive and balanced” and appointing new faculty to its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. It also promised to end programs “that promote unlawful efforts to achieve race-based outcomes, quotes, diversity targets or similar efforts.”
The university will also have to issue a report to a monitor assuring that its programs “do not promote unlawful DEI goals.”
The pact comes after months of uncertainty and fraught negotiations at the more than 270-year-old university. It was among the first targets of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus protests and on colleges that he asserts have allowed Jewish students be threatened and harassed.
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