The University of Columbia accepted a series of requirements of the Government of the President of the US, Donald Trump, to maintain its 400 million dollars of federal financing, which were withdrawn at the beginning of the month for alleged anti -Semitism.
The educational center reported in a letter that the use of surgical masks on the campus will be prohibited and that students who participate in protests in the enclosure will be bound to show their university card to the authorities.
In this regard, he announced that the University has hired 36 special security agents who will have the ability to expel students or stop them “when convenient.”
“While we train our internal security force, we will continue to trust the New York Police Department to offer additional security and assistance when necessary,” he added.
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The Trump government canceled earlier this month subsidies and contracts of the educational center worth 400 million dollars “due to their passivity to the persistent harassment of Jewish students” after receiving a report in charge of anti -Semitism in the University Campus.
Subsequently, the Trump administration sent a letter to Katrina Armstrong, an interim president of the University, in which she established several conditions to negotiate the continuity of the financial relationship between the institution and the government.
“We have worked very hard to address the legitimate concerns that have emerged inside and outside the university, with respect to discrimination, harassment and anti -Semitic acts that our Jewish community has faced since October 7, 2023,” the institution said.
Among the measures that Columbia will take to recover its financing is also the hiring of a vice -rector who will review educational programs related to the Middle East – among them the center for Palestinian studies and the institute for Israel and Jewish studies – and with other regions such as Africa or Asia.
The institution was last year the main scenario in the city of massive protests that extended to other American universities, and then resulted in the expulsion of some students.
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The educational center has been in the focus in recent weeks after the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, one of the leaders of these demonstrations, which remains detained in a Louisiana immigrants center and to which the Government intends to deport for alleged links with Hamas that has not yet demonstrated
With EFE information
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