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(New York, NY) — Columbia University is bracing for protests today, after the Ivy League school started making moves over Spring break to show the White House they want to scratch back the 400 million in federal funds taken away for failing to protect Jewish students on campus. Columbia says it will meet the Trump administration demands, including hiring 36 new campus police officers to deal with protesters, limit locations where demonstrations are allowed, and ban people from wearing masks at those protests.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said on CNN Sunday that Columbia is on the right track now to regain those lost federal funds. McMahon says there have been great conversations with Columbia’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong. The secretary says Columbia’s president told her that she was working to make sure there was no discrimination of any kind on the Upper West Side campus.
