Fast Forward House committee says acting Columbia president believed Jewish board member was a ‘mole’ Claire Shipman urged the trustee’s removal, suggesting the board add an Arab member instead ...

They do not reflect how I feel,” Claire Shipman wrote in a private email obtained by Jewish Insider and referring to an exchange that occurred before she was named acting president.

House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik is criticizing Columbia University’s president over past comments that the congresswoman said are a potential violation of the Civil Rights ...

Acting Columbia University president Claire Shipman. AP In the Oct. 30, 2023, WhatsApp message to then-president Minouche Shafik, Shipman wrote, “People are really frustrated and scared about ...

Columbia, he said, had been “very, very bad, very antisemitic and lots of other things, but they are working with us on finding a solution.” Harvard, in contrast, “wants to fight,” he said.

In a confusing turn of events, the National Institutes of Health told staff that it would free up some frozen funding to the Ivy League campus — then quickly backtracked.

Columbia University's acting president Claire Shipman speaks during Columbia University commencement ceremony on Columbia's main campus, in Manhattan, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 in New York.

The university's acting president, Claire Shipman, said the protesters who had holed up inside a library reading room were asked repeatedly to show identification and to leave, but they refused.

Claire Shipman's Political Faceplant Washington Free Beacon, Washington Free Beacon July 3, 2025 ...

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