An ordered federal judge on Thursday Columbia University and Barnard College to refrain from complying with the Demand for the Students for Students for Student Disciplinary records, at least until it hears the next week at Mahmoud Khalil and other students for a temporary restrained order.
Khalil, graduate student of Columbia University arrested and faced with deportation for his role in campus against IsraelAlong with other students identifying pseudonyms, they filed a lawsuit earlier this month, and she wanted to block the home committee for education and the workforce from obtaining disciplinary records for students involved in demonstrations.
The Judge for the American district Arun has set a hearing in the case on Tuesday.
A lawsuit, filed in the Federal Court in Manhattan Against schools, committees and its chairman, rep. Tim Walberg, Michigan RepublicanSearch permanent ban ban Congress from forcing schools to provide records and universities to respect demand.
The Committee sent a letter last month that requires that Columbia and Barnard provide records or risk billions of dollars in federal funding.
The judge order came as Columbia faces the deadline of Trump to receive changes in the federal funding, including 400 million dollars and anti-Semitism staff due to the wave of pro-Palestinian protests.
The list includes a school that puts the Department for Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies under academic reception at least five years, adopting a new definition of anti-Semitism and overhaul of reception.
On Thursday, a group of history in Colombia wrote a letter to the school leadership that collapses them to reject what they called “authoritarian” efforts to dominate the Faculty and the University.
“Would this control be realized, here or elsewhere, there would be any real historical scholarship, teaching and the intellectual community impossible,” Professors wrote in the letter, which was divided into social media. They argued that the administration interventions “endanger our ability to sincerely think about the past, present and future.”
The academics also gave a brief instructive lesson, noting the past struggles over the school-free academic freedom, including the release of the Faculty during the World War II and and the student who were expelled in 1936. years after the leading anti-nacist protests. However, they warned, this latest battle “basically different” from these previous conflicts.
When asked to comment on the Professor’s letter, Columbia University officers designed a statement published on Wednesday Katrina Armstrong, the school president.
He said in it that the school would continue “to deal with constructive dialogue”, including the efforts to resolve anti-Semitism, harassment and discrimination, but would not want from our principles and the value of academic freedom and the free expressions that these institutions have led in the last 270 years. ”
“Legitimate questions about our practices and progress can be answered on them. But we will never endanger our pedagogical independence values, our commitment to academic freedom or our obligation to follow the law,” she wrote.