Columbia University changes to the financing of the federal government against federal financing on disputes in the federal funding

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Columbia University has announced a number of new guidelines after President Trump contradicts 400 million US dollars in federal financing via Campus protests.

The changes include a review of the admission guidelines, which makes it easier to report harassment, to tighten the rules for the location of protests, to prohibit masks in protests, set 36 additional campus police officers with restarting powers And to give the office of provost more authority to act with disciplinary measures against students who are involved in protests.

The university also checks its curriculum, starting with courses over the Middle East.

In the last academic year there were widespread campus riots, including Propalestinian protests and camps, counter-protests, development of acquisitions, arrests and graduation ceremony. Columbia became the epicenter of the nationwide demonstrations.

“We have worked hard to express the legitimate concerns that were triggered both within and without our Columbia community, including our supervisory authorities, in terms of discrimination, harassment and anti -Semitic acts of our Jewish community after October 7, 2023”

According to the new rules, all persons who participate in protests or demonstrations must show the question of their university IDs, and it is forbidden to wear facial coverings according to the document in order to “hide the identity”.

The university said that it would expand the faculty’s intellectual diversity to ensure fairness in the studies of the Middle East, and devote itself to “institutional neutrality” arbitrators.

The Trump government moved 400 million US dollars from Columbia University in early March and announced grants and contracts, since the government described the default of the Ivy League School to suppress anti -Semitism on campus.

Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, described the Move a unconstitutional government, “to force universities and universities to censor the speech and attorney of the students who are not approved, e.g.

Columbia was the first goal in President Donald Trump’s campaign to reduce the federal money at universities that were accused of feting anti-Semitism in the middle of the Israel-Hamas War that started in October 2023.

In the second week of his second term, Trump signed an executive regulation that promised to combat “anti -Semitism” on College Campus by revoking visa and “reporting” and “reporting” about the activities of international students and employees.

On March 8, the Trump administration instructed immigration officers, Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate and prominent Palestinian activist in Columbia, who played a central role in protests against the Israel Hamas War last year, which played a central role.

CNN checks the documents published by the university.

This is a developing history and is updated.