Columbia University President Resigns

Finally, after months of encouraging and allowing anti-Semitic behavior on the campus of Columbia University, its president is stepping down.

Earlier this week, it was announced that President Minouche Shafik resigned.

She badly failed the school and its student body, allowing radicals to take over the campus, including occupying a school building and trashing it in the process.

What’s Going On

In announcing her resignation, Shafik stated, “Over the summer, I have been able to reflect and have decided that my moving on at this point would best enable Columbia to traverse the challenges ahead.

“I am making this announcement now so that new leadership can be in place before the new term begins.”

Her resignation went into effect on August 14, and she will be replaced on an interim basis by Dr. Katrina Armstrong, who is Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Columbia was not alone in having anti-Israel protests on its campus, but it gained nationwide coverage for how the campus was literally being taken over by radical protesters who were clearly supporting Hamas and Palestine over Israel.

The sad reality is that many of the kids involved in the protest had no idea what they were protesting; they just decided to go along with the flow.

Protesting is fine, but when students are being put in danger, you have to draw the line, and you cannot allow these protests to grow violent or block students from their classes, which is what happened in Columbia and many other schools across the country.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who has been after all these school presidents for months, took a victory lap after Shafik resigned.

She stated, “THREE DOWN, so many to go. As I have said consistently since her catastrophic testimony at the Education and the Workforce Committee hearing, Columbia University’s President Minouche Shafik’s failed presidency was untenable and that is was only a matter of time before her forced resignation.

“After failing to protect Jewish students and negotiating with pro-Hamas terrorists, this forced resignation is long overdue.

“We will continue to demand moral clarity, condemnation of antisemitism, protection of Jewish students and faculty, and stronger leadership from American higher education institutions.”

The fact of the matter is that all of these presidents should have been terminated for putting these students in danger.

College is supposed to be one of the greatest times of a kid’s life, yet these students were literally fearing for their lives.

Just as Stefanik said, three down, but so many more to go.