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Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong resigns, just days after caving to Trump admin demands
NY Post ^ | 3/28/25 | Anna Young

Posted on 03/28/2025 6:10:03 PM PDT by Libloather

Columbia University’s interim president resigned from her position at the embattled Ivy League Friday night, just days after she told the Trump administration she would implement a mask ban — while privately promising faculty she would not.

Katrina Armstrong’s decision to step down came in the wake of her high-profile battle with the Trump administration over the prestigious New York school’s $400 million in federal funding, sources told the Wall Street Journal Friday.

Armstrong said she will return to her role as chief executive officer of the university’s Irving Medical Center, she told students and faculty in a letter Friday.

“It has been a singular honor to lead Columbia University in this important and challenging time,” she wrote.

“This is one of the world’s great universities, in its most vital city, and I am proud to have worked with extraordinary faculty, students, and alumni. But my heart is with science, and my passion is with healing. That is where I can best serve this University and our community moving forward.”

Board of trustees co-chair Claire Shipman has been named acting president, effective immediately, Columbia said in a statement, adding that she will serve until the board “completes its presidential search.”

Columbia’s Board of Trustees announced today that Interim President Katrina A. Armstrong is returning to lead the University’s Irving Medical Center. Board of Trustees Co-Chair Claire Shipman has been appointed Acting President, effective immediately, and will serve until the Board completes its presidential search.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; History
KEYWORDS: annayoung; armstrong; caved; chaos; claireshipman; columbia; education; katrinaarmstrong; liar; newyork; newyorkpost; resign; shelied; shesaliar
DNC'S Hamas wing deeply saddened.
1 posted on 03/28/2025 6:10:03 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

What an ******* she is


2 posted on 03/28/2025 6:13:35 PM PDT by onona
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To: onona

FAFO.

Columbia certainly deserves NO Federal Funds.


3 posted on 03/28/2025 6:16:36 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Libloather

Just a long line of left-wing wimmins. Are there men in charge any more?


4 posted on 03/28/2025 6:16:58 PM PDT by ten18
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To: ten18
Are there men in charge any more?

No.

5 posted on 03/28/2025 6:17:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Libloather

>>DNC’S Hamas wing deeply saddened.

Not really. The replacement was a reporter for ABC, NBC, and CNN. She’ll no doubt continue the policy of anti-semitism and hatred of America.


6 posted on 03/28/2025 6:18:06 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Paladin2

Especially The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).

[Hotbed of Gorebal Warning scientific nonsense.]


7 posted on 03/28/2025 6:19:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Libloather

She is unqualified to be a janitor—after her public admission she was a lying sociopath.


8 posted on 03/28/2025 6:24:12 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg

Will still receive mid six figures in her ‘medical’ do-nothihg job.


9 posted on 03/28/2025 6:35:27 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jjotto

They just empty their desk and move down the street to a well funded NGO, new desk, same contacts, spouse and children as well go onto the consulting ledger in accounting. Until these creatures go to jail, nothing will change. As fast as you can peel the onion, it regenerates and you get no closer to the center.


10 posted on 03/28/2025 6:46:25 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

11 posted on 03/28/2025 6:51:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: blackdog

Hopefully the NGOs are about to be much less well funded, with USAID being demolished.


12 posted on 03/28/2025 7:10:36 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Libloather

so, will Columbia now uncave, and go back to it’s policy of total campus chaos and hate against it’s Jewish students and Israel?


13 posted on 03/28/2025 8:34:26 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: FreedomPoster

The Clinton’s were the bunch that began using public universities as their deep bench in outplacement players from the federal bureaucracy. It has become a whole branch of government itself.


14 posted on 03/28/2025 8:49:21 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: blackdog
As fast as you can peel the onion, it regenerates and you get no closer to the center.

Hope you don't mind if I steal that line.

15 posted on 03/29/2025 2:13:22 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: vikingd00d

i thought her name sounded familiar


16 posted on 03/29/2025 2:32:44 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: ten18

“Just a long line of left-wing wimmins.”

I was thinking the same thing. It would be nice to see a straight white man in these positions. Sanity would be more likely. Not guaranteed, of course, but more likely.


17 posted on 03/29/2025 3:46:30 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Libloather

bttt


18 posted on 03/29/2025 3:53:11 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: jjotto

Hahaha. CEO of Irving Medical is multi million easy.


19 posted on 03/29/2025 4:04:20 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: onona

yeah, but she didnt leave empty handed


20 posted on 03/29/2025 4:15:57 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (DONT DRINK & DRONE 🤓 HAVE A NICE DAY 😀 )
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