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NEW YORK (AP) – Katrina Armstrong, interim president of Columbia University, has resigned and returned to her position to run the medical center of the New York school.
Armstrong returns to the return of the CEO of Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center, where Columbia agrees with many policy changes requested by the Trump administration, which are conditions for the recovery of $400 million in government funding.
In a statement Friday on the Columbia University website, Armstrong said she was honored to lead the university during “important and challenging times.”
“But my heart is science, my passion is healing. That’s where I better move forward for this university and our community,” she wrote.
Armstrong resigned from the post in August after reviewing her protests over the Israel-Hamas war and a review of the campus teacher.
The university’s trustee appointed Claire Shipman, co-chair of the board, as acting president, while those seeking permanent replacements continued.
Armstrong led the university through the toughest months in its long history.
The Presidential Administration has taken a move to deprive universities and their research funding hospitals on the grounds that it has not done enough to combat anti-Semitism or punish students who participated in Pro-Palestinian demonstrations last year, but has created a crisis that many believe exists.
The university quickly surrendered to agree to the list of administrative requirements.
In the new changes, Colombia agreed to review its admissions policy, ban protesters from wearing masks, academic buildings, and put the Eastern Research Department under the supervision of the new senior provost and has the authority to review its leadership and curriculum.
Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, condemned the school’s acquiesce and condemned advocates of freedom of speech, saying “has endangered academic freedom and campus expression nationwide.”
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said the university was “on the right path” but has not pointed out whether funds could be restored, leaving the school’s researchers (many from medical centers) in a difficult situation.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has expelled several Colombian students who participated in the demonstrations because of the destruction of non-citizens involved in pro-Palestine radicalism on campus.
Two of the students, Mahmoud Khalil and Yunseo Chung, are legal American residents who participated in demonstrations on campus and are now fighting in court to stay in the country.
Immigration agents arrested Khalil in his university apartment and searched other residences on the school campus.
The new acting president Shipman is a reporter for ABC News, NBC News and CNN, covering the White House and Russia over the long career of journalism. She wrote several books on women’s leadership.
Shipman said in a statement that she is taking on “a clear understanding of the serious challenges ahead of us and a strong commitment to urgency, integrity and working with our faculty to promote our mission, implement our mission, and require reform, protecting our students, and maintaining our academic freedom and open enquiry.”
She added that when the permanent president was selected, the person would “have a proper review of the university’s leadership team and structure to ensure we are best suited to the future.”
Those who accept the role will have to navigate between the Trump administration’s demands and students’ ongoing protests over the Gaza war and restrictions on emerging freedom of speech.