Noah Bernstein
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Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), the chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, reacted Wednesday evening to former University President Minouche Shafik’s Wednesday resignation, criticizing her handling of on-campus “antisemitic harassment, discrimination, and disorder.”
Three Columbia administrators have resigned after being placed on leave for over six weeks for controversial text messages they exchanged during a May 31 panel on Jewish student life, University spokesperson Samantha Slater confirmed in a statement to Spectator on Thursday.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), the chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a letter to top Columbia administrators on Thursday, writing that the University has repeatedly “failed to produce priority items” the committee has requested for its investigation into Columbia’s handling of “severe and pervasive antisemitism” on campus.
Three Columbia administrators have been placed on leave pending an investigation into text messages they sent in late May during an alumni weekend panel about Jewish life on campus, Columbia College Dean Josef Sorett told staff on Thursday.
The leaders of six House committees sent letters to senior administrators at Columbia and Barnard on June 3, announcing a “Congress-wide probe” into how the institutions have dealt with antisemitism on campus and their access to federal funding.
Twenty-one Congressional Democrats sent a letter to Columbia’s board of trustees on Monday morning expressing their collective “disappointment that, despite promises to do so, Columbia University has not yet disbanded the unauthorized and impermissible encampment of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish activists on campus.”