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2025-03-21 Fifth Column
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Columbia Stares Down Trump Admin's 3/20 Deadline To Implement Reforms, Hamas-loving prof brought in $100mil in NIH $$$
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[WashingtonFreeBeacon] The policy changes, which include a mask ban and permanent 'time, place, and manner rules,' would only start 'long-term' negotiations
The clock is ticking for Columbia University to respond to a series of demands from the Trump administration, which set a March 20 deadline for the school. The administration indicated that implementation of a series of reforms, including a ban on masked protests and the enforcement of disciplinary policies, would serve as a jumping-off point for negotiations between the university and the administration about the restoration of $430 million in federal funds.
Columbia's interim president, Katrina Armstrong, issued a letter on Wednesday that gave no indication of whether the school would meet the administration's requests. Addressed to "fellow members of the Columbia community," the letter acknowledges the Trump administration's "preconditions for 'continued financial relationships with the United States government'" as well as internal questions about "how we will respond."
Columbia, Armstrong wrote, is "committed to doing what's right." She provided no further detail beyond a pledge to "engage in constructive dialogue with our federal regulators," but did tout "the creation of a new Office of Institutional Equity."
The letter came shortly after the Wall Street Journal reported that Columbia "is getting close to yielding to President Trump's demands in negotiations to restore $400 million in federal funding." Sources familiar with the process, however, told the Washington Free Beacon that the parties are nowhere near a deal that would lead to the resumption of funding.
The Trump administration's "preconditions," laid out in a March 13 letter to Armstrong, include a mask ban, an implementation of permanent "time, place, and manner rules" governing protests, and an academic receivership for Columbia's Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies department. But agreeing to those demands would not guarantee the return of federal funds. Instead, the administration's letter calls on Columbia to "ensure and document compliance" with the policies by Thursday to unlock negotiations on "long-term structural reforms."
The demands have set Columbia's left-wing journalism school on edge, pitting professors against each other, according to Breaker. They prompted internal meetings in which one professor, Nina Berman, accused her colleagues of "doxxing" and another, former journalism school dean Nick Lemann, physically collapsed and was rushed to the hospital.
Armstrong nonetheless closed her letter by touting "the progress on our campus."
"We are working around the clock to secure the future of this extraordinary University," she wrote. "As we move forward, we will always be guided by our principles of free expression, academic freedom and the pursuit of excellence, and we will never waver in our abiding commitment to Columbia's mission of teaching, creating, and advancing knowledge."
Pro-Hamas Columbia prof linked to millions in NIH funding
[CampusReform] City Journal also reports that Neuropsychology Professor Jennifer Manly has involvement in approximately $100 million in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the last several decades. The outlet notes that much of her work consists of the "so-called social determinants of health thesis, posits that racism, sexism, and homophobia can cause brain disease in ’Black and Latinx communities’—a thesis that critics have described as pseudo-science."
Rufo and Grossman also note that in an interview from last year, Manly stated that, "we shouldn’t blame people for their lifestyle choices in terms of their brain health," concerning the idea that racism contributes to Alzheimer’s. She also reportedly advanced the idea that "systems of oppression" cause minorities to suffer from higher rates of dementia.
In January, Manly published a taxpayer-funded article that suggests that "racism is associated with inflammation and dementia risk." This research was part of a NIH grant of over $700,000, according to City Journal.
Manly’s university biography notes that her "research focuses on mechanisms of inequalities in cognitive aging and Alzheimer’s Disease." The web page also acknowledges that "[h]er research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Alzheimer’s Association, and she has authored over 220 peer-reviewed publications and 10 chapters."
In 2021, Manly was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. During 2011-2015, she served on the HHS Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care and Services. 
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