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Columbia University president Minouche Shafik resigns in wake of Gaza protests

Columbia University, president Minouche Shafik has resigned. Four months after student protests against the Gaza War rocked Columbia University,
Just a few weeks before the fall semester started, Ms. Shafik resigned from her job at the prestigious Ivy League university in New York City, barely a year after she started there.
With her handling of protests against the Gaza war, Ms. Shafik has become the third president of an Ivy League university to step down.
Ms. Shafik controversially gave the go-ahead for NYPD officers to swarm the campus in April, which resulted in the arrest of roughly 100 students who were occupying a university building.

The episode marked the firstShafik wrote that she has been asked by the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom to chair “a review of the government’s approach to international development and how to improve capability.” With the move, Shafik will return to the United Kingdom, where she has spent the majority of her career.

Katrina Armstrong, chief executive officer of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, will serve as the interim president, according to an email from David Greenwald, Law ’83, and Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, co-chairs of the board of trustees.

It was time that mass arrests had been made on Columbia’s campus since Vietnam War protests more than five decades ago.
The action sparked additional demonstrations at numerous universities in the US and Canada.

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