Middle East Studies: University Response to Controversy Focuses On Systemic Failures

In a controversy that never seemed to stop snowballing, what began as a series of student complaints in a 20-minute, low-budget documentary grew into a tumultuous campus crisis that shook every par

By James Romoser | May 9 12:00 am ET

Khalidi Has Entered Race For Princeton Chair

Rashid Khalidi, the celebrated historian of the modern Middle East who has become entangled in the recent controversy over Middle East studies at Columbia, may leave the University to teach at Prin

By James Romoser | May 2 12:00 am ET

New Grievance Policies Released

By James Romoser | Apr 12 12:00 am ET

Outsiders Respond To Ad Hoc Report

The March 31st report on the controversy surrounding Middle East studies had some strong words for outside organizations that have inserted themselves into the debate, but that hasn’t kept th

By James Romoser | Apr 11 12:00 am ET

Dershowitz Critiques Report, Calls CU Profs "Extremists"

Echoing comments he made at a speech on Columbia’s campus two months ago, Alan Dershowitz, a noted Harvard law professor, sharply criticized Columbia’s Middle East and Asian Languages a

By James Romoser | Apr 11 12:00 am ET

One Fan's Season of Promise Turns Into a Nightmare

It’s been a month and three days since that last pitiful loss, the shellacking taken from Yale that made it 10 straight defeats, the final nail in the light blue coffin that encases my Columb

By James Romoser | Apr 8 12:00 am ET

MEALAC Report Sparks Debate

Six days after the release of the ad hoc faculty committee’s report on grievance procedures and classroom intimidation, some Columbia professors still haven’t finished reading it.

By James Romoser | Apr 6 12:00 am ET

Massad Blasts Committee's Conclusions

Professors Joseph Massad and George Saliba, the only two professors named in the ad hoc faculty committee’s report on students’ claims of classroom intimidation, criticized yesterday th

By James Romoser | Apr 1 12:00 am ET

Committee Report Criticizes Grievance Procedures, Finds No Anti-Semitism

In a strong indictment of Columbia’s grievance procedures and advising channels, the ad hoc faculty committee investigating students’ claims that they were intimidated by some Middle Ea

By James Romoser | Mar 31 12:00 am ET

Professors Contest Charges Of Anti-Semitism

Disturbed by the outgrowths of the controversy over Middle East studies at Columbia, faculty members across the university are speaking out against what they see as baseless attacks from outsiders

By James Romoser | Mar 28 12:00 am ET