Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said on Sunday that Columbia is “on the right track” to restore $400 million canceled by the Trump administration earlier this month in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”
The signal of approval comes two days after Columbia acquiesced to several of the federal government’s nine demands for the University, which it called a “precondition for formal negotiations” about Columbia’s federal funding in a March 13 letter to interim University President Katrina Armstrong...
In the interview with Bash, McMahon said she has had “such great conversations” with Armstrong and that the two have exchanged personal phone numbers. “When she and I met, she knew that this was her responsibility, to make sure that children on her campus were safe,” McMahon said. “She wanted to make sure there was no discrimination of any kind. She wanted to address any systemic issues that were identified relative to the antisemitism on campus.”
McMahon did not confirm that the canceled grants and contracts would be restored to Columbia, but she did say that “they have worked very hard in a very short period of time.”
“I believe that they are on the right track so that we can now move forward,” McMahon added...
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