https://www.reddit.com/r/education/comments/1j81vcd/trump_cuts_400m_in_federal_grants_to_columbia/
created by GooseberryGOLD on 10/03/2025 at 15:54 UTC
184 upvotes, 30 top-level comments (showing 25)
The funding cut is a necessary enforcement action against a university that has repeatedly failed to protect Jewish students from relentless violence, intimidation, and antisemitic harassment on campus, demonstrating that federal funding privileges come with civil rights responsibilities.
2: https://san.com/cc/gaza-protests-cost-ivy-league-university-400-million-in-federal-grants/
3: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-cuts-400-million-grants-columbia-antisemitism-concerns
4: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1898101850169393451
6: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/07/us/columbia-university-grants-canceled-trump/index.html
9: https://president.columbia.edu/news/responding-federal-action
10: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp979w055o
11: https://www.verity.news/story/2025/trump-threatens-to-cut-college-funding-over-campus-protests
14: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp979w055o
The unprecedented speed of enforcement action and scale of the funding cuts signify an unlawful attempt to coerce universities into censoring constitutionally protected speech and student advocacy regarding Palestinian rights, threatening academic freedom and First Amendment protections.
Comment by Matt_Murphy_ at 10/03/2025 at 16:45 UTC
42 upvotes, 2 direct replies
again, can we finally lay to rest all the American crowing about fighting tyranny, and needing guns to keep the government honest, and 'disagreeing with what you say but dying for your right to say it'?
when fascisn came everyone rolled over.
Comment by ShortLadder9121 at 10/03/2025 at 16:11 UTC
68 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Bow your heads to the King or lose all funding over.
Really? The government is retaliating because protestors aren't protesting the targets the government wants and Republicans are okay with this? lol
Comment by Illustrious-Okra-524 at 10/03/2025 at 16:20 UTC
21 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Appeasing fascists never works. After this they allowed the gestapo to arrest an anti-genocide protester
Comment by SharpCookie232 at 10/03/2025 at 16:35 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
So Jan 6th was ok, but a rally that causes some Jewish students to feel intimidated is verboten?
Let's also remember that some of the protestors were Jewish students, that student protest is a cornerstone of free speech in America, and that the NYPD used fear and intimadation on Columbia students when they arrested them last year, even falsely claiming that a bomb threat had been made on campus, and using members of the Strategic Reaction Group (SRG), the famous “anti-terrorist” unit to round students up.
Comment by FocusIsFragile at 10/03/2025 at 18:32 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Garbage country.
Comment by HelicaseHustle at 10/03/2025 at 18:39 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Trump decided to cut the money shortly after a phone call with the university president where trump asked repeatedly if the president was willing to help him seize the Panama Canal. 🤣
Comment by MisterForkbeard at 10/03/2025 at 16:33 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Remember - Colombia *caved* to Rightwing demands. Famously.
There's a twofold less in that: You can't ever do *anything* that Republicans don't like, or they'll screw your university and/or your business in every way they can. Even if you're doing something legal, and even if you publicly apologize and 'admit' to wrongdoing and follow their demands.
Secondly, if you're going to get them mad at you, might as well go whole hog and actually stick to your guns.
Comment by Party-Cartographer11 at 10/03/2025 at 18:07 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Is anyone else surprised that Columbia with its $15B endowment is getting $400M in taxpayer dollars? This is like extreme reverse distribution of income. Take money from the taxpayer and give it to the ultra-exclusive rich or soon to be rich.
Comment by TheDuckFarm at 10/03/2025 at 16:02 UTC*
5 upvotes, 4 direct replies
I’m surprised to see that a private university get’s $1.3 billion a year of public funds. Are these grants for working on government research projects?
Edit, my surprise is not just the amount, but the percent of budget. For example my public university is also a tier 1 research institution yet they get less than 9% of their budget from federal grants. The private Columbia gets 20%, that's large percentage of their operating budget.
Comment by hansn at 10/03/2025 at 16:19 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Fascism. They want to make Universities crack down on students who hold opinions contrary to the administration.
Comment by Moth_vs_Porchlight at 10/03/2025 at 17:06 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Being against genocide is not the same thing as being antisemitic. Also, disapproving of the way the country of Israel handles a conflict is not the same thing as being anti-Jewish. I wish people would stop making these false correlations.
That's like saying if you dont agree with Trump's executive order to paralyze 200,000 and starve 166,000 USAID kids you're anti-christian.
Comment by Particular_Today1624 at 10/03/2025 at 19:23 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Isn’t Columbia law school among the most admired in this country? Well, what are they going to do?
Comment by 1eyedsqrrl at 10/03/2025 at 20:12 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
What would Edward Said say...
Comment by SavvyTraveler10 at 10/03/2025 at 20:44 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
“Not a cult.”
Comment by brazucadomundo at 10/03/2025 at 22:29 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
$400M cut for a big corporation? For this time, he is actually getting it right here.
Comment by Jazzlike_Quit_9495 at 10/03/2025 at 17:31 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It is good policy to make examples of universities which tolerate the bigoted and hate filled anti-Semitic radical left. I also agree with deporting non-citizens who openly support terrorist organizations.
Comment by vinto37 at 10/03/2025 at 16:17 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is how the government fights back when we boycott their supporters. We don’t support them, they don’t support us. As always it comes down to money. And all will bend the knee in order to keep their bottom line healthy.
Comment by BlackSparkz at 10/03/2025 at 16:28 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Interesting, because Columbia University just gave up a student on a Green Card without a warrant, for organizing a pro-Palestine protest.
Comment by Bumblesavage at 10/03/2025 at 18:34 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Why a private university which charges 89 k per year requires government funds ?
Comment by joesbalt at 10/03/2025 at 16:35 UTC
0 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Politics aside
Why does Columbia need 400mil of public money????
Comment by Bishop_Bullwinkle813 at 10/03/2025 at 17:58 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
To put this into perspective Columbia has a 13.6 BILLION dollar anual endowment. 400 Million will mean downgrading their toilet paper brand.
Comment by TerribleMud9586 at 10/03/2025 at 19:12 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Considering Columbia has an almost 15 billion dollar endowment I think they will be ok. Which begs the question, why are they getting millions in taxpayer money every year, while at the same time charging tens of thousands for a single semester of education?
Comment by djcelts at 10/03/2025 at 16:03 UTC
-12 upvotes, 2 direct replies
even a stopped clock is right twice a day. If Columbia and the other schools can't protect their students and these civil rights violations keep occurring then the Fed has no choice but to enforce their own rules about discrimination. Maybe this will wake up the schools before they decide to tax their endowments (which is next)
Comment by BigDonkeyDuck at 10/03/2025 at 16:48 UTC
-1 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Why was a university that charges $70k in tuition alone getting $400 million of our tax money?
Comment by Dramatic_Writing_780 at 10/03/2025 at 16:39 UTC
-1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
But MAGA is Nazi???