The New York-based university, acquiescing to the demands in a memo released on Friday, laid out plans to ban face masks on campus, empower security officers to remove or arrest individuals, and place a new official in charge of the department that offers courses on the Middle East.
Academic receivership is a rare step taken by a university's administrators to fix a dysfunctional department by appointing a professor or administrator outside the department to take over. It is unheard of for the U.S. government to make such a demand.
Professor Jonathan Zimmerman, an education historian at the University of Pennsylvania and a “proud” graduate of Columbia, called it a sad day for the university.
Zimmerman said the White House actions have apparently already had a chilling effect on higher education because officials at other universities failed to band together and speak out.
The Ivy League university's response is being watched by other universities that the administration has targeted as it advances its policy objectives in areas ranging from campus protests to transgender sports and diversity initiatives.
The administration has warned at least 60 other universities of possible action over alleged failure to comply with federal civil rights laws related to antisemitism.
Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives last year criticized at least two professors of Palestinian descent working in Columbia's Middle Eastern studies department for their comments about the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Among its the outlined changes, the school has hired three dozen special officers who have the power to arrest people on campus and has revised its anti-discrimination policies, including its authority to sanction campus organizations, the memo said.
The school also said it is searching for new faculty members to “ensure intellectual diversity.” Columbia plans to fill joint positions in the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the international affairs school in an effort to ensure “excellence and fairness in Middle East studies,“ the memo said.
Scientists and doctors who were awarded grants by the National Institutes of Health after months or years of work described receiving unusual notices by email last week saying their projects were terminated because of “unsafe antisemitic actions.”
The administration also canceled funding for a study designed to improve the safety of blood transfusion therapies for adults, children and newborns, and research on uterine fibroids, non-cancerous tumors that can cause pain and affect women's fertility. (Reporting by Joseph Ax and Jonathan Allen in New York; additonal reporting by Rich McKay and Daniel Trotta; Editing by Frank McGurty, Paul Thomasch and Rosalba O'Brien)
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