The Education Department said Thursday that Columbia University has violated national antidiscrimination laws and has truthful failed to conscionable accreditation standards.
The department's civilian rights bureau notified the Middle States Commission connected Higher Education — which accredits U.S. colleges and universities — that Columbia was retired of compliance, according to a quality merchandise from the Education Department.
The department, citing President Trump's executive order connected accreditation standards, accused the university's leaders of failing to code antisemitism connected field aft the Oct. 7 onslaught against Israel by Hamas.
"After Hamas' October 7, 2023, panic onslaught connected Israel, Columbia University's enactment acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students connected its campus," Education Secretary Linda McMahon said successful the release.
She noted that the accreditation committee has "an tremendous nationalist work arsenic gatekeepers of national pupil aid," and they "determine which institutions are eligible for national pupil loans and Pell Grants." Losing its accreditation would mean that Columbia would beryllium ineligible to connection national fiscal assistance to students attending the university.
"In airy of OCR's determination, Columbia University nary longer appears to conscionable the Commission's accreditation standards," the section merchandise said.
Last month, the civilian rights offices of the Education Department and Department of Health and Human Services determined that Columbia had "failed to meaningfully support Jewish students against terrible and pervasive harassment connected Columbia's field and consequently denied these students' adjacent entree to acquisition opportunities to which they are entitled nether the law."
Columbia has not yet commented connected the Education Department's findings.
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