To settle civil rights claims against the university for allegedly failing to protect students from antisemitic harassment, Columbia will pay a fine of $200 million to the federal government over three years, in three annual installments.
Columbia also agrees to abide by pledges it made in March to the Trump administration to reduce antisemitism and rein in protests on campus. Among them: Columbia will keep its new senior vice provost, who will review Columbia’s regional studies programs, including their leadership and curricula, starting with the university’s Middle East programs. Columbia will appoint new faculty who have affiliations with the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and other departments. The university will maintain restrictions that bar students from protesting inside academic buildings, and will require that demonstrators wearing masks show identification when asked. Columbia also agrees to employ some public safety officers with arrest powers.
To further support Jewish life on campus, Columbia will add an administrator to serve as a liaison to students experiencing antisemitism issues.
A new diversity dean! You have to love that one. Woke MAGA is real.
The university will abide by the Supreme Court’s decision ending affirmative action in college admissions. To prove it is following the law, Columbia will provide statistical information to the government about rejected and admitted students broken down by race, grade point average and performance on standardized tests, for all its schools. . . . Columbia will “not maintain programs that promote unlawful efforts” related to diversity, equity and inclusion and will not take race, color, sex or national origin into account in hiring decisions.
What is Trump going to do when this leads to the number of white students going down? And notice that they don't ask about sex, because they don't want the existing lower standard for men to change.
Columbia will also comply with laws related to international students, and agree to inform the Department of Homeland Security when a student is expelled, suspended or arrested. (The provision requiring the university to report about arrests is new; the other provisions were already required.) Columbia will also “take steps to decrease financial dependence on international student enrollment.”
But at least there is a provision saying the government won't interfere with hiring or "the content of academic speech."
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