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(CNBC) Education Department says Columbia University fails to meet accreditation standards

"On May 22, 2025, the Department of Education’s OCR and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) determined that Columbia University acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students, thereby violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, OCR and HHS OCR found that Columbia failed to meaningfully protect Jewish students against severe and pervasive harassment on Columbia’s campus and consequently denied these students’ equal access to educational opportunities to which they are entitled under the law.

Under 34 C.F.R. § 602.20(a), accreditors are required to notify any member institution about a federal noncompliance finding and establish a plan to come into compliance. If a university fails to come into compliance within a specified period, an accreditor must take appropriate action against its member institution."

And there you have it. Columbia broke the law. This thread is full of dishonesty and IMO it is mostly based on extreme anti-Trumpism.

U.S. Department of Education Notifies Columbia University’s Accreditor of Columbia’s Title VI Violation

U.S. Department of Education Notifies Columbia University’s Accreditor of Columbia’s Title VI Violation
www.ed.gov
 
Chomsky said:
As is typical for MAGA, there's a lot of higher-level generalized assertions devoid of specifics.
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Besides asking vapid questions, have you made any effort to research specifics? You've already said that you're "100% anti-Trump," so I guess that describes your interest in any facts on the non-leftist side of the issue.
 

Absolutely.

Ditto for Trump's newly required Federal Workforce Hiring Essay (where applicants must write an essay on how they will act in concert with and promote "President Trump's America First Agenda", signing it and dating it and submitting it with their application for employment.
 

That is an enormously broad brush you just used. Care to name some people who "are supporting genocide against the Jews"?
 

We all saw the demonstrations. Just as we saw the campus demonstrations in the sixties. How can the university physically clear-out buildings with that level & quantity of misdeed? That's why they called NYCPD in, as is the case with other urban campus universities during similar events. Sometimes it even requires the national guard.
 

Once the situation spiraled out-of-control to the point of requiring NYCPD to come-in and take-over, what was the university to do? How do you clear-out buildings the NYCPD couldn't?
 


Record of notice snipped for character limits.
Columbia has already admitted fault to some of the notice above. The question now is if they have done enough to regain their accreditation. No matter how many want to deny that Columbia broke the law, pretending that this is ALL Trump's fault, blah, blah, blah, the university is in violation of Title VI.

No $$soup$$ for you, Columbia, until you clean up your act.

 

In terms of academic accreditation, perhaps you are right.

My concern is also with Federal Pell Grants & Federal Student Loans.

Here's excerpts from the OP Article, where it appears the Administration is leaning on the accreditor:

 
Chomsky said:
I don't see any inconsistency.

My article stated the university agreed to Trump's demands, and he hasn't communicated anything else back to them.

So, what's the problem?
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Here is your statement:


The article then notes the memo, which gives specific requests.
 
bythoughts said:
As PC as Columbia is, do you really think that sounds believable?
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Believe whatever you want. Their deliberate indifference is linked in the above Post 209.
The university failed to take adequate action to address ongoing harassment. It did not consistently enforce its policies on protests or investigate and punish acts of vandalism and harassment, such as the repeated drawing of swastikas. The focus was often on avoiding escalation rather than stopping rule violations, which allowed the hostile environment to persist.
 
dcsports said:
HHS gave specific items, and articles regarding this have been posted several times.
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In what post? I am not searching through 200+ posts.
 
Yes ~ Columbia broke the law. Yes ~ This thread has multiple posts based on dishonesty. Yes ~ Mostly based on extreme anti-Trumpism.

However, this thread does have multiple posts based on realty which are being ignored based on extreme anti-Trumpism. imho big to all of those posts.
 

The above is the very complaint I put in my OP and that many in this thread have.

There's high-level generalized assertion, but no specificity.

Who broke the law? When? Where? How?

There's nothing there, but McMahon's assertion.
 
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HEAR! HEAR! Post worth repeating.
 
Kudos to the minority of posters who spoke up countering the nonsense. T/Y for speaking up too.
 
Hasn't this previously been the case with schools accused of discriminating against minorities? Shoe on the other foot is not too comfortable, is it?
 
RetiredAtLast said:
Besides asking vapid questions, have you made any effort to research specifics? You've already said that you're "100% anti-Trump," so I guess that describes your interest in any facts on the non-leftist side of the issue.
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I'm asking for the specifics in the assertions generated.

None of the asserters, such as yourself, provide any specifics.

Are you saying it's my job, as your debate opponent, to provide the specifics for your unsupported assertions?
 
coyote505 said:
Hasn't this previously been the case with schools accused of discriminating against minorities? Shoe on the other foot is not too comfortable, is it?
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Bravo.
Explains this thread in a nutshell.
 
So in your warped world simply accusing the University confirms guilt. Is that about right? Or does Columbia get to defend itself in court....yes or no.
 
No, Columbia is ACCUSED of breaking the law. The SEX OFFENDER and FELON BROKE the law. He was tried and convicted in court, unlike Columbia U.
 
dcsports said:
Here is your statement:



The article then notes the memo, which gives specific requests.
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I believe you may be misreading the sequencing of events.

The BBC article seems to be claiming the university addressed the memo issues, and is awaiting further communication.
 
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