The move comes after Trump demanded several changes to be instituted at the university in return for federal funding

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27192542

By Syma Mohammed Published date: 14 March 2025 19:58 GMT

"Columbia University leadership made a series of concessions to the Trump administration on Thursday following an extraordinary letter that listed nine demands it expected the university to make if it did not want its federal funding to be pulled.

On Thursday, the university announced it was expelling, suspending and revoking the degrees of 22 students following last year’s Hamilton Hall protest, fulfilling one of the nine demands issued in a letter from the Trump administration to Columbia."

  • Pandemanium@lemm.ee
    2·
    11 minutes ago

    I want to know how a university can just revoke a degree after the fact. Unfortunately the article didn’t say a damn thing about it, not even how many they actually revoked.

  • rusticus@lemm.ee
    49·
    15 hours ago

    If you can’t see that this is the end of the First Amendment you need a cane and dog.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      14 hours ago

      the dog is for biting them in the junk, and the cane is for beating the everloving shit out of them.

      because they are willful blind, collaborative pieces of shit.

    • dryfter@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      10 hours ago

      Wait…what if I can see it as the end? Do I get to ditch my cane? Or do I need to get a dog to go with the cane now?

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    882·
    18 hours ago

    All 22 of these students should receive honorary degrees from universities abroad and from every US university that isn’t full of cowards.

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    17 hours ago

    These dumbasses really think capitulation will make the fascists go away? That’s never how it works. Now you’ve emboldened them to go further, you utter idiots.

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    62·
    17 hours ago

    These demands are wild.

    This included placing the distinguished Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies department under an “academic receivership” for a minimum of five years and installing a new department chair. This would involve the university ceding control of the department and an outsider chair that could be appointed by the government to run it, potentially overseeing everything from curriculum design to the hiring and firing of faculty.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    711·
    18 hours ago

    If I were a Columbia student right now I’d be leaving next semester and seeing I could get refunds for this semester.

    Your prestige means nothing.