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Columbia University closed 180 employees due to funding cuts from Trump Admin.
The Trump administration canceled $ 400 million in federal grant to Colombia.
The university continues to advocate for the restoration of federal funds.
The University of Columbia has closed 180 staff members working on federal grants to 180 staff members, as the Trump administration canceled $ 400 million in funding, citing inactivity against inactivity against persistent harassment of Jewish students allegedly.
Despite the university’s efforts to follow the latter demands, including banning masks on protest and hiring additional security personnel, Funding is suspended, Leading to cut important employees.
Columbia’s interim president and other officials said, “We have had to make a difficult option and unfortunately, today, about 180 allies that are working, will receive notices of non-renovation or termination, on the affected federal grants,” Interim Chairman and other officials of Colombia and other officials Said in an open letterCiting a “acute” stress on the university’s finance.
According to the letter, the Colombia will try to convince the government to restore funding. It did not specify which departments would lose researchers and infrastructure. Columbia leaders said the deduction was more than $ 5 billion in grants committed to the university. Most of that funding went for healthcare and scientific research.
According to the news agency Reuters, In March, the Trump administration canceled Columbia $ 400 million in grants and contracts and threatened to further stop the billions due to the describing an antisemic harassment around the school’s premises.
Columbia has been a Palestinian and an anti-Israeli student protest movement, who fought in Gaza in American complexes in the last year and a year and a half.
On Monday, the Trump administration told the Harvard University that it would not get federal money in future, until the richest and oldest American college, Harvard, agreed to the government’s demands as to how to address campus antismitism and other issues.
Columbia received several demands of the Trump administration in an attempt to restore funds. The school promised to improve its disciplinary process, appoint security officers with arrest powers and appoint an officer to review the departments offering courses in the Middle East.
Harvard has filed a lawsuit to prevent the Trump administration from freezing billions of dollars in federal funds. It rejected a list of the demands of the White House, saying that they would reduce its freedom.
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