After months of controversy and a noticeable antisemitic problem on her campus, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik has reportedly resigned from her position.
Shafik had been the center of a brewing controversy at the elite university. Back in April protestors seized control of buildings and were threatening Jewish students on campus while her administration did little to protect those Jewish students.
She had attempted to negotiate with those protestors, though to no avail, and resorted to just pleading for them to “voluntarily disperse.”
We urge those in the encampment to voluntarily disperse. We are consulting with a broader group in our community to explore alternative internal options to end this crisis as soon as possible. We will continue to update the community with new developments.
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Shafik will be leaving the university soon, according to new reports on Wednesday evening.
Shafik is stepping away after just one year at the helm, which was marked by constant — and sometimes destructive — anti-Israel protests, the Free Beacon reported.
The resignation comes just one week after three university deans resigned from Columbia following the exposure of their “very troubling” text chain that disparaged Israeli and Jewish students’ fears of rising anti-Semitism on campus.
Classes for the fall semester are set to begin in just a few weeks.
Shafik’s brief tenure will surely be remembered as chaotic and a black eye on the institution.
