Will Columbia Make a Deal?

From the Wall St. Journal: ...Recent versions of a potential agreement between the [Columbia] and the government haven’t included a consent decree, according to two... [knowledgeable] people. A government task force had initially sought to put the university under a consent decree, which would have put a federal judge in charge of overseeing Columbia’s compliance. 

More recent discussions, however, have involved the possibility of a monitor or outside observer who would have less power than a federal judge... Columbia previously agreed to an earlier set of demands from the Trump administration, including restricting masks, empowering campus police with new powers to arrest students, and appointing a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies. But those concessions only kicked off formal negotiations and didn’t restore Columbia’s federal funding...

Acting President Claire Shipman... said... it was essential for the school to restore its research partnership with the government. “Our red lines remain the same,” she said. “We must maintain our autonomy and independent governance. We decide who teaches at our institution, what they teach and which students we admit.” As word of the outlines of a possible deal circulated over the weekend, some members of Columbia’s Jewish community expressed frustration that a consent decree might not be part of it...

Full story at https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-federal-funding-negotiations-deal-trump-consent-decree-88427d9a.