“By any measure, these universities have a major problem,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said.
ByA scheduling conflict spared Columbia University President Minouche Shafik from the viral moment that contributed to toppling two other college presidents, only to land her center stage for congressional scrutiny in Wednesday morning’s House education committee hearing.
Shafik’s testimony, alongside the school’s co-chairs of the board of trustees and a law professor, is also the first test of whether colleges have changed their approach to Capitol Hill. But Shafik, in Some higher education groups and faculty who hoped to get help in dealing with thorny issues of free speech are resigning themselves to a show trial.
“Rather than being concerned with the safety and well-being of Jewish students on campuses, the committee is leveraging antisemitism in a wider effort to caricature and demonize universities as hotbeds of ‘woke indoctrination,’” the groupThe House education committee’s roughly five-hour-long hearing in December spurred the resignations of two college presidents, widespread scrutiny from alumni, led donors reconsidering their gifts, and about half a dozen congressional investigations into...
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