President Donald Trump’s administration faces a new lawsuit that argues that the government threatens to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds Columbia University It is illegal.
The American Federation of Teachers filed a lawsuit Tuesday with the American Association of University Professors, arguing that the Trump administration is seeking to “consolidate power over higher education.”
“This action challenges the Trump administration’s illegal and unprecedented efforts to overwhelm the university’s academic autonomy and control the ideas, associations, scholarships and expressions of its faculty and staff,” the lawsuit reads.
“The Trump administration is forcing Columbia to bid and make speech and expression on campus by holding billions of dollars in federal funds authorized by Congress, which is the funding responsible for positioning the U.S. university system as a global leader in science, medicine and technology research and ensuring it remains the case.”
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Anti-Israel agitators held camps on Columbia University’s campus. (Getty Image)
After the lawsuit Administrators in Colombia Agree to make comprehensive changes to its policies regarding student protests and to review the Middle East Research Department.
The Trump administration threatens to withhold about $400 million if no changes are made.
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President Donald Trump’s administration threatens to cut Columbia if it does not reform its protest policies. (Fox News/Special Report)
Ivy League schools agree to ban masks in order to cover up their identity, giving 36 campus police new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to supervise the department middle East, South Asian and African Studies and the Center for Palestinian Studies.
Sources familiar with the negotiations told Fox News that meeting the requirements does not mean that Colombia will receive $400 million in funding, but that is only a prerequisite for the opening talks.
Maria McIver, executive director of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), spoke at an “emergency vigil” outside the gates of Columbia University in protest of the latest policy changes on Monday. (fox)
The lawsuit filed Tuesday in the southern region of New York called on the court to demand that the Trump administration resume “all grants and contracts granted to Columbia University.”
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It also urged the court to ban the Trump administration from further cutting funds and to compensate plaintiffs.
Fox News’ Louis Casiano contributed to the report.
