The Trump administration wants a judge to comply with the anti -Semitism reforms of the University of Columbia to ensure that they are carried out as promised, according to a report.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal writes that the administration is exploring the possibility of entering a consent decree with the Ivy League school.
Such agreement, that the University would have to agree to enter, would give a federal judge supervision on whether Columbia maintains its end of the offer that hit the administration last month under the threat of losing hundreds of millions.
If the judge rules the university, it has no compliance, it could be a hero in contempt of the court and subject to sanctions, including fines.
A Columbia spokesman touched the position: “The University remains in active dialogue with the federal government to restore its critical research financing,” but did not directly direct the report on the consent decree.
In March, the Trump working group to combat the anti -Semitism comprising the Department of Education, the General Services Administration and Health and Human Services issued a series of demands that the school must meet or risk losing about $ 400 million in federal funds.
The nine demands included a prohibition of masks for protesters and repressions in anti-Israel protesters who violate the law, including punishing that response for the violent acquisition of Hamilton Hall in April 2024, duration broke the day in innovations and wiesters in Innoel Let’s riege.
Just before the deadline of one month imposed by the task force expired, Columbia agreed changes in policies, including new and stricter policies that govern facial covers and the training of police to make judges.
The school also agreed to install new leadership to review the curricula for its Department of Studies of Medio Oriente, Asia del Sur and Africano and Center for Palestine Studies, according to a memorandum of the administrators.
However, days later, the interim president of the school, Katrina Armstrong, was expelled by the prestigious board of trustees of the school after publicly accepting the prohibition of the school mask, but promising teacher who did not close.
The consent decrees can last years, and if the university decided to fight against it, the Department of Justice would be requested to be justified. However, the judicial battle could take years to see, and Columbia could lose its federal funds in the meantime.
The sources told the Journal that the impulse of the consent decree arose
An admissions consultant told The Post last month that the “Columbia brand has fogged” as a result of the campus, pointing to 10 clients that helped to obtain acceptance in the ’29 class of the elite school, none of Whatam plans to attribute.
