The Columbia University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has expressed staunch opposition to demands from the Trump administration, which includes drastic measures that threaten academic control. The demands come in response to the university's alleged failure to address harassment of Jewish students, with the administration canceling approximately $400 million in federal funding. The AAUP fears these stipulations would compromise university autonomy and set a concerning precedent for other institutions. They highlight past efforts Columbia made to support Jewish students, asserting the current response is more about ideological control than genuine concern for student welfare.
Compliance would make Columbia complicit in its own destruction, stripping shared control of academic and student affairs from the faculty and administration.
The government's demands read like a ransom letter, dictating to the university what principles it must sacrifice and what ideological positions it must adopt to restore research funding.
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