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columbia university UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin appointed as next chancellor presidentseeking to escape two years of turmoil.
This includes campus protest Exceed Israel–Hamas war and the Trump administration’s subsequent campaign to suppress student activism and force change in schools ivy league School.
Mnookin’s appointment was announced Sunday night. She will assume her new role on July 1, becoming Columbia’s fifth leader in the past four years.
The Trump administration targeted Columbia shortly after taking office last year, making it the first target of a broader campaign to influence America’s elite. University Dealing with protests, which students are admitted and what is taught in classes.
Immigration enforcement officials jailed some Columbia University students who participated in 2024 pro-Palestinian protests.
In the name of combating anti-Semitism on campus, the administration has eliminated $400 million in research funding from the school and its affiliated hospital system and threatened to withhold billions of dollars in government financial support.
In the end, Colombia reached an agreement with the government to pay more than $220 million to restore research funding.
It also agreed to overhaul the university’s student disciplinary procedures and apply the controversial, federally sanctioned definition of anti-Semitism not only to teaching but also to disciplinary committees that have been investigating students critical of Israel.
Mnookin’s predecessor, Nemat Shafik, resigned in August 2024 after coming under scrutiny for his handling of protests and campus divisions.
The university named Katrina Armstrong as chief executive of its medical school, but she resigned last March, days before Columbia agreed to the settlement. The board then appointed co-chair Claire Shipman as acting chair while it searches for a permanent leader.
Ms. Mnookin, 58, served as dean of the UCLA School of Law before being appointed to her current position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2022. she is Harvard Universityshe received her law degree from Yale Law School and her PhD in the history and social studies of science and technology from New York University. MIT.