The demands include a mask ban and a major crackdown on anti-Israel protests on campus. The Trump administration says their demands protect Jewish students from harassment and empower campus police.

Compliance would make Columbia complicit in its own destruction, stripping shared control of academic and student affairs from the faculty and administration and replacing the deliberative practices and structures of the university with peremptory fiats from outside the institution,

A federal judge says a Columbia University student activist's legal challenge of his detention by the U.S. government will be heard in New Jersey rather than New York or Louisiana