Columbia University must “abide and comply” with its public agreement to crack down on anti-Israel protests if the Ivy League school hopes to regain $400 million in canceled funding, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said on Tuesday.
When asked by a reporter, “What happens if it emerges that Columbia is not meeting the demands and complying with the agreements that they said they would?” McMahon replied, “My answer is pretty simple.”
“They have to abide and comply with the terms that we have set down and [we’ve] talked with them and they’ve agreed to,” McMahon told a small group of reporters over breakfast at Education Department headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Columbia University on Friday revealed several policy changes, such as allowing campus police officers to make arrests, rules regarding protesting, and discipline, among others. The policy…
