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Professors condemn Columbia crackdown on pro-Palestine students
Columbia and Barnard chapters of nationwide group issue statement claiming ‘flagrant disregard of shared governance’
The Columbia and Barnard chapters of the American Association of University Professors have issued a joint statement condemning Columbia president Minouche Shafik’s crackdowns on student-led pro-Palestinian protests.
In the statement released on Friday, the chapters said: “We are shocked at her failure to mount any defense of the free inquiry central to the educational mission of a university in a democratic society and at her willingness to appease legislators seeking to interfere in university affairs.”
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