A “Coup” at Columbia? Former Law Prof. Katherine Franke on School’s Capitulation to Trump

Princeton has grow to be the newest college to be focused by the Trump administration, because the federal authorities pauses dozens of federal grants to the college. The information comes after the Trump administration threatened to chop off greater than $8.7 billion to Harvard and earlier suspended $175 million in federal funding to the College of Pennsylvania and $400 million to Columbia College. In all instances, the Trump administration has claimed to be combating antisemitism, citing the faculties’ responses to student-led campus protests in solidarity with Gaza. “It’s time for us to step again … and assume extra critically about how we run our universities,” says former Columbia regulation professor Katherine Franke, who says college students from overseas, even these with inexperienced playing cards and U.S. citizenship, are actually “terrified” of being swept up within the Trump administration’s crackdown. “It looks like a type of racial and ethnic cleaning that’s occurring on our campuses.”