Posted on 03/30/2025 8:56:21 AM PDT by Libloather
Columbia University’s new president once called Congressional hearings on campus antisemitism “Capitol Hill nonsense.”
Claire Shipman, a former CNN White House correspondent whose ex-husband is former Obama Administration press secretary Jay Carney, served as co-chair of the University’s board of trustees before she was appointed Friday night to replace interim school president Katrina Armstrong.
In a Dec. 28, 2023, text message, Shipman wrote to then university president Minouche Shafik she thought Columbia would be spared from the “capital hill nonsense,” referring to December 2023 Congressional hearings that saw the presidents of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and MIT testify about campus protests against the war in Gaza.
The tense hearings famously resulted in Harvard’s Claudine Gay and Penn’s Liz Magill resigning after they were grilled on whether calling for the killing of Jews would violate their school’s bullying and harassment policies — and answered that it depended on the context.
Shipman’s text messages about the hearings were revealed in a 325-page October report from the Republican House Committee on Education and the Workforce that included leaked messages between university officials.
Columbia’s leaders had expressed contempt for the congressional investigation, according to the report.
In the same text message, Shipman also suggested reinstating student groups that had participated in the protests.
“I do think we should think about unsuspending the groups before semester starts to take the wind out of that,” she wrote to Shafik.
Armstrong’s resignation was the second in less than a year over the university’s handling of campus protests.
Armstrong left days after she caved and told President’s Trump’s administration she would implement a mask ban during campus protests as a condition for keeping $400 million in federal funding — while allegedly privately promising faculty she would not.
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Time to cut off the government gravy train—again.
Apparently the first time did not work!
At least two things need to happen to these universities. First, they need to pay a large tax on their endowment earnings. Now, they are paying a couple of percent. Second, they need to have significant penalties for not reporting foreign money given to the University which is required by law. The arrogance of university presidents as shown by those at Columbia and others shows they think they are above the law and that nobody can touch them. They need to be brought into line of teaching not propagandizing.
Columbia University is a terrorist service academy.
What is the tax treatment of college and university endowments?
I guess they couldn’t find a normal American who wanted the job. Well, obviously they couldn’t find an illegal alien muzzie who wanted it either.
claire shipman
isnt she the one who likes to decorate her walls with
soviet propaganda
Will she last 100 days?
Which is exactly my point — they should all be taxed. Just because some are small doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be taxed. If the same philosophy applied to business, small businesses wouldn’t be taxed at all. And taxing at 5% or less is ridiculous. If they are going to keep getting that low tax, then force some of the endowment towards reducing tuition costs.
Isn’t JonPreston breaking any FR rules by posting the same pictures multiple times?
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It did not work because Armstrong lied about cutting off funding and the rest.
Just cut it off now, and only restore after they have proven to everyone’s satisfaction they are complying.
So yes, my post would be a confirmation of your point. 🙂👍
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