US EditionEducation groups sue Trump administration over Columbia funding battle
- The Trump administration is appealing to the Supreme Court to cut hundreds of millions in teacher training funds, which a federal judge previously blocked due to their critical role in addressing teacher shortages.
- Columbia University faculty unions have sued the Trump administration over a $400 million funding cut, claiming it violates the First Amendment and Congress's power of the purse.
- Secretary Linda McMahon stated that federal money for the programs would not be cut; however, oversight will transfer to the Department of Health and Human Services.
- President Trump has targeted former student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil for deportation, accusing him of ties to Hamas, amid ongoing tension over university protests and funding.
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Trump’s $400 million showdown with Columbia won’t fix US universities - Washington Examiner
The Trump administration announced earlier this month that it would revoke $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University, punishing the school for allegedly allowing antisemitism to flourish on campus and failing to protect Jewish students. The administration sent a letter to the university’s interim president outlining actions the university must take “as a precondition for formal negotiations regarding Columbia Universit…
Iowa Capital Dispatch
Clinton HeraldIowa school shows leadership where others have not
Drake University President Marty Martin. (Photo courtesy of Drake University)As the president, governors and legislators elevate the stress and anxiety in higher education in the United States by seeking to change how colleges and universities operate and what they teach, the contrast between how an Ivy League school and an Iowa university responded shows the courage gap among college leaders. Columbia University, the 270-year-old private, non-p…
The Morning Journal
Cal Thomas: Why are top universities getting federal money?
Columbia University at first appeared to have surrendered to President 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, Katrina A…
Conservative Review
The Savage NationWhat Columbia University President Katrina Armstrong Really Told Faculty Members About Changes the School Is Making
Nothing to see here.That’s what Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong told approximately 75 faculty members who assembled on a Saturday morning Zoom call to hear from her about a letter sent by the school to the Trump administration on Friday outlining a series of steps Columbia says it is taking to address "legitimate concerns raised both from within and without our Columbia community, including by our regulators" about the eruption o…
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