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A message from the university’s acting president said that talks with the Trump administration were continuing as the White ...
Stepping up its pressure campaign, the Education Department accused the university of failing to report large foreign gifts ...
Harvard University has pledged to resist the Trump administration’s attacks on its autonomy and has called for an increase in ...
Acting president Claire Shipman’s statement follows Harvard’s similar defiance and comes amid escalating federal pressure on elite universities. As reported by The New York Times, Columbia had ...
The Trump administration has escalated its ongoing battle with Harvard, threatening to block the university from enrolling ...
Columbia University’s new acting president dismissed the congressional hearings on campus antisemitism as "nonsense" in a 2023 text message. Claire Shipman, co-chair of the university’s board ...
Columbia University acting president Claire Shipman emphasized the importance of maintaining institutional autonomy in a message Monday night that seemed to tacitly reject a potential consent decree ...
Columbia University rejects any agreement with the US federal government that would surrender control of the academic institution, acting president Claire Shipman said on Monday. Her statement ...
In the middle of an academic year that has brought unprecedented federal scrutiny and mass upheaval to Columbia’s campus, the University has named Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, as acting president ...
Following the resignation of former interim University President Katrina Armstrong, Republican lawmakers have criticized the appointment of Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, as acting University ...
Columbia's acting President Claire Shipman said the school would reject any heavy-handed measures to bring the school into line.