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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What an ******* she is
FAFO.
Columbia certainly deserves NO Federal Funds.
Just a long line of left-wing wimmins. Are there men in charge any more?
No.
>>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.
Especially The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
[Hotbed of Gorebal Warning scientific nonsense.]
She is unqualified to be a janitor—after her public admission she was a lying sociopath.
Will still receive mid six figures in her ‘medical’ do-nothihg job.
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.
Hopefully the NGOs are about to be much less well funded, with USAID being demolished.
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?
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.
Hope you don't mind if I steal that line.
i thought her name sounded familiar
“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.
bttt
Hahaha. CEO of Irving Medical is multi million easy.
yeah, but she didnt leave empty handed
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