Columbia's acting President Claire Shipman said the school would reject any heavy-handed measures to bring the school into line.

In her first public statement, in March, Claire Shipman, Columbia’s new acting president, acknowledged that the university faced “a precarious moment,” but she did not directly mention ...

Columbia University acting president Claire Shipman emphasized the importance of maintaining institutional autonomy in a message Monday night that seemed to tacitly reject a potential consent decree ...

Harvard sits on a massive endowment of $53.2 billion, an amount exceeding the GDP of almost half the world's countries.

Both sides are digging in for a clash that could test the limits of the government’s power and the independence that has made ...

Harvard lost more than $2 billion in federal grants by refusing to comply with the president's demands. These other top-flight schools have also had huge chunks of funding revoked.

Columbia University’s new acting president dismissed the congressional hearings on campus antisemitism as "nonsense" in a 2023 text message. Claire Shipman, co-chair of the university’s board ...

Acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, spoke to the University Senate at its monthly plenary on Friday, making her first public remarks since assuming office on March 28 after ...

The University will not surrender its independence or its constitutional rights,’ Harvard University's president wrote in a ...

In the middle of an academic year that has brought unprecedented federal scrutiny and mass upheaval to Columbia’s campus, the University has named Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, as acting president ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to revoke Harvard Universitys tax-exempt status following its rejection of ...