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Columbia University President Resigns

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The school is also a top target of Trump’s immigration crackdown targeting students involved in pro-Palestinian activism, including Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia graduate student and green-card h...
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Columbia University's interim president, Katrina Armstrong, is stepping aside and the co-chair of its board of trustees, Claire Shipman, has been named acting president, the university said in a state...
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Armstrong’s resignation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The extraordinary move comes a week after Columbia agreed to a set of nine demands by the Trump administration to open talks to ...

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