As the 2024–2025 academic year winds down, higher education institutions across the nation will be watching Columbia University closely.
On March 7, President Donald Trump’s administration rescinded $400 million in federal grants to Columbia due to the school’s “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”
Columbia, which receives more than $5 billion in federal grants, was among the five schools initially identified in an investigation by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights that cited an explosion in anti-Semitism on American university campuses following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks against Israel.
The scope of the investigations was later expanded to 60 additional colleges and universities, according to a March 10 letter from the civil rights office....
