New York (AP)-A federal judge instructed Columbia University and Barnard College on Thursday to meet the demand for a Republican house committee for a republican disciplinary documents, at least until he will hear a hearing from Mahmoud Khalil and other students for a transient entry scheme next week.
Khalil, a doctoral student at Columbia University, who was arrested and deported to campus against Israel because of his role in the protests, as well as other students identified by pseudonyms submitted a lawsuit at the beginning of this month in which the House Committee on Education and the Working Persons for obtaining disciplinary records for students who were involved in demonstrations.
The US district judge Arun Subramanian set a hearing on Tuesday.
The committee and its chairman, Rep. Tim Walberg, a Republican in Michigan, requests the lawsuit to be submitted to the Congress, to force the schools to meet the records and the universities from demand from the demand.
The committee sent a letter last month in which Columbia and Barnard provide the records or risks of billions of dollars of federal financing.
The judge was arranged when Columbia was faced with a period of the Trump government this week to meet the demands for comprehensive changes in order to obtain federal financing, including $ 400 million that have already accused that they had not protected students and employees from anti-Semitism in the middle of the wave of pro-Palestine protests.
The list includes the school, which uses its department department of the Middle East, South Asian and African studies in the academic recipient for at least five years, takes up a recent definition of anti -Semitism and revises its admission guidelines.
On Thursday, a group of history professors in Columbia wrote a letter to the leadership of the school in which they were asked to reject what they described as “authoritarian” efforts to dominate universities and universities.
“If this control is implemented here or elsewhere, it would make all real historical science, teaching and intellectual community impossible,” the professors wrote in the letter that was shared on social media. They argued that the interventions of the administration “endanger our ability to honestly think about the past, present and the future”.
The academics also gave a compact history lesson in the letter and have followed school at school in the past, including the relief of the faculty during the First World War and a student who was excluded in 1936 after listing anti-Nazi protests. However, they warned that this recent battle is “fundamentally different” from these previous conflicts.
As officers from Columbia University, who asked Katrina Armstrong, who were published on Wednesday on Wednesday, to comment on Wednesday by Katrina Armstrong, the President of the School.
In it, Armstrong said that the school would continue to “conduct constructive dialogue with our federal supervisory authorities”, including the efforts to combat anti -Semitism, harassment and discrimination, but it “would not fluctuate from our principles and values of academic freedom and the free expression that has led this institution over the past 270 years.”
“Legitimal questions about our practices and progress can be asked, and we will answer them. But we will never endanger our values of pedagogical independence, our commitment to academic freedom or our obligation to follow the law,” she wrote.
