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March 31, 2025

Columbia University Board Installs New President After Interim Leader Resigns
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The interim president of Columbia University, Katrina Armstrong,
resigned on Friday just a week after the school capitulated to a number
of demands by the Trump administration, which had threatened to pull
$400 million in federal funding from the school. Columbia's Board of
Trustees then elevated its own board co-chair Claire Shipman to become
the school's new interim president.

On Saturday, a group of Columbia alumni ripped up their diplomas to
protest the detention of Mahmoud Khalil and what they see as the
school's complicity with the Trump administration.


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