Harvard University has pledged to resist the Trump administration’s attacks on its autonomy and has called for an increase in ...

The Trump administration has escalated its ongoing battle with Harvard, threatening to block the university from enrolling ...

In her first public statement, in March, Claire Shipman, Columbia’s new acting president, acknowledged that the university faced “a precarious moment,” but she did not directly mention ...

Acting president Claire Shipman’s statement follows Harvard’s similar defiance and comes amid escalating federal pressure on elite universities. As reported by The New York Times, Columbia had ...

Hundreds of students, faculty and community members on a California campus booed on Thursday as speakers accused the ...

Columbia University rejects any agreement with the US federal government that would surrender control of the academic institution, acting president Claire Shipman said on Monday. Her statement ...

Columbia University’s new acting president dismissed the congressional hearings on campus antisemitism as "nonsense" in a 2023 text message. Claire Shipman, co-chair of the university’s board ...

The first three months of President Donald Trump’s second term have been marked by consistent efforts to entrench the ...

Acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, spoke to the University Senate at its monthly plenary on Friday, making her first public remarks since assuming office on March 28 after ...

In the middle of an academic year that has brought unprecedented federal scrutiny and mass upheaval to Columbia’s campus, the University has named Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, as acting president ...

By Sharon Otterman and Maia Coleman On Capitol Hill last April, Claire Shipman, then a co-chair of Columbia University’s board of trustees, testified that she agreed there was a “moral crisis ...