Columbia’s New Interim President Called Congressional Hearings on Antisemitism ‘Nonsense’
“Shipman’s text messages about the hearings were revealed in a 325-page October report from the Republican House Committee on Education and the Workforce that included leaked messages between university officials.”
As I said recently, the rot is so deep here. I don’t know how Columbia is saved.
BREAKING: The new president of Columbia University called the Congressional hearings on antisemitism "nonsense" and that the suspended student groups responsible for taking over buildings and canceling classes should be reinstated.
Columbia is truly a lost cause at this point. pic.twitter.com/PnNXcro0yd
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 29, 2025
From the New York Post:
Columbia’s new prez called Congress hearings on antisemitism ‘Capitol Hill nonsense’
Columbia University’s new president once called Congressional hearings on campus antisemitism “Capitol Hill nonsense.”
Claire Shipman, a former CNN White House correspondent whose ex-husband is former Obama Administration press secretary Jay Carney, served as co-chair of the University’s board of trustees before she was appointed Friday night to replace interim school president Katrina Armstrong.
In a Dec. 28, 2023, text message, Shipman wrote to then university president Minouche Shafik she thought Columbia would be spared from the “capital hill nonsense,” referring to December 2023 Congressional hearings that saw the presidents of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and MIT testify about campus protests against the war in Gaza.
The tense hearings famously resulted in Harvard’s Claudine Gay and Penn’s Liz Magill resigning after they were grilled on whether calling for the killing of Jews would violate their school’s bullying and harassment policies — and answered that it depended on the context.
Shipman’s text messages about the hearings were revealed in a 325-page October report from the Republican House Committee on Education and the Workforce that included leaked messages between university officials.
Columbia’s leaders had expressed contempt for the congressional investigation, according to the report.
In the same text message, Shipman also suggested reinstating student groups that had participated in the protests.
“I do think we should think about unsuspending the groups before semester starts to take the wind out of that,” she wrote to Shafik.
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I dare her to do all that. Besides the $430 million being withheld, there are billions in grants to Columbia professors that can be withheld as well. How long would Columbia’s $15 billion endowment last under such circumstances?
I really don’t think they need student loan money.
This wont take long.
Now Entering Suddenly.
Great comment. Hope you’re right.
Shipman is a tin eared idiot. Could the board of trustees not find anyone untainted? It’s not rocket science here. Appointment someone to clean house – both students, student groups, and faculty, You have the endowment to weather the hit.
The purpose was obviously to find someone of the same ideology. They should be punished for it.
The Feds need to use Columbia as an example, one so brutal that every other university starts begging,
Lots of universities are still discriminating against white people in admissions. Spread the (brutality) wealth.
Not merely in admissions — in faculty and administration hiring and promoting, too. And not just against white PEOPLE, but white males in particular.
This rhymes with the stuff that went on between Oberlin and Gibson’s Bakery. And that played out while the sock puppet was in the White House. Shipman will go down like the rest who arrogantly thought they could bully their ways around reasonability and fairness. Like Gay and McGill, she’ll never see the light, but whoever follows her will.
Fedgov should take the wind out of Columbia’s ability to accept federal student loan money if Shipman remains in the job.