Harvard President Claudine Gayand University of Pennsylvania PresidentLiz Magillpreviously announced their resignations following Congressional testimonies on the handling of anti-Semitism on campus. During her congressional testimony in April, Shafik told the committee that Columbia "stri...
The leaders of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University resigned following their own widely panned testimony on campus antisemitism. Months later, the president of Cornell University stepped down. “Columbia University’s President Minouche Shafik’s failed presidency was untenable,” Republica...
House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said Wednesday morning during a news conference ahead of university president Minouche Shafik's testimony before the Committee on Capitol Hill.
“As I have said consistently since her catastrophic testimony at the Education and Workforce Committee hearing, Columbia University’s President Minouche Shafik’s failed presidency was untenable and that is was only a matter of time before her forced resignation,” Stefanik wrote. “After failing t...
During a heated line of questioning at the December hearing, Stefanik asked the university leaders to answer whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate each university’s code of conduct. Liz Magill, then president of Penn, and Claudine Gay, then ...
NEW YORK CITY-Tensions among Columbia University students were loud and apparent Sunday, less than a week following thepresident’s testimonybefore Congress and daysfollowing more than 100 demonstrators' arrestson campus. MORE:A timeline of how we got here ...
University President Shafik addresses protests, arrests In a letter, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik asked the NYPD to move in, writing "I have determined that the encampment and related disruptions pose a clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the Univer...
In a letter earlier this week, the group of 10 New York Republicans, which includes Stefanik, Malliotakis and Lawler, called on Shafik to step aside, saying the recent events on the campus and Shafik's testimony before Congress left them with "no confidence" in the president's leadership....
The protests, which began on April 17, followed Columbia University president Minouche Shafik's testimony to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce about antisemitism on college campuses. MORE: Some Iranian women say they fear war with Israel amid violent hija...
University PresidentDr. Minouche Shafikissueda statement Tuesdaysaying she and other school leaders were speaking with students and working to reach an agreement. A university spokesperson confirmed overnight the conversations would continue, if necessary, through Thursday. ...