Wow, this is incredible and GREAT news.
Columbia is going to be getting an earful from all of its research professors and alumni. Of course, it’s always been a commie and antisemitic hotbed, so it’s going to be interesting to hear how they respond.
Ironic if it's long been anti-Semitic. Columbia has long been reputed to be the most Jewish of the Ivy League schools. Largest percentage of Jewish faculty and student body of any Ivy League school.
I never checked the actual numbers, but I'm a native New Yorker and familiar with the reputation of many of its neighborhoods and institutions. At least what reputations they had decades ago, before I left NYC.