cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27204942
By Areeb Ullah Published date: 14 March 2025 13:31 GMT
"The university was also told to begin the process of placing Columbia’s world-renowned Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies department under academic receivership. This process requires an outside chair, who could be appointed by the government, to run the department for five years. "
"Other demands listed by the White House include a mask ban on campus, giving “full law enforcement authority” to campus security by allowing them to “arrest and remove agitators”, and reforming the admissions process for its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. "
- Adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.
- Placing the Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies department under academic receivership with an outside chair appointed possibly by the government, to run it for five years.
- Implementing a mask ban on campus.
- Granting “full law enforcement authority” to campus security, allowing them to “arrest and remove agitators”.
- Reforming the admissions process for undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
- Enforcing existing disciplinary policies.
- Abolishing the University Judicial Board.
- Centralizing the powers of the University Judicial Board under the university president.
- Meeting these demands by March 20 to enter “formal negotiations” with the federal government to avoid losing all federal funding.
This is cute coming from an administration that removed Holocaust Remembrance Day from the national calendar, had Google remove it from their calendars, and has multiple nazis on staff. Fucking cute.
