Columbia University

Columbia University said Friday its interim president, Katrina A. Armstrong, is stepping aside, a week after the university struck a deal with the Trump administration to negotiate its federal funding, NBC News reported.

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student the Trump administration is trying to expel from the U.S. because of his role in campus protests against Israel, appeared on Friday before a judge in New Jersey to debate where his legal fight to be released from federal custody should play out. The government wants the case moved to Louisiana, where...

Tracie Strahan reporting on Khalil hearing focuses on moving case to Louisiana.

A Columbia University student who faces potential deportation for her involvement in a pro-Palestinian protest cannot be detained by immigration officials for now as she fights the Trump administration in court, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said in Manhattan court that the government had not laid out enough facts about its claims against...

Federal prosecutors quietly filed more charges against Mahmoud Khalil, in an attempt to seemingly circumvent the first amendment debate.

The Trump administration recently pulled $400 million in funding over how the university handled protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon says Columbia University is “on the right track” to recover federal funding frozen by the Trump administration.

Columbia University is conceding to the Trump administration’s demands to step up efforts to crackdown on anti-Israel protests on campus and reform its admissions process in order to hold onto millions of dollars in federal funding. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Columbia University agreed to implement a suite of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.

Detained Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil appeared briefly Friday in immigration court at a remote Louisiana detention center as his lawyers fight in multiple venues to try to free him.

The deportation case against Mahmoud Khalil is being moved to New Jersey. Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident with a green card, has been held in a detention facility in Louisiana for almost two weeks, and has not been charged with any crime. The Trump administration has claimed, without evidence, Khalil led activities aligned with Hamas and spread propaganda during pro-Palestinian...

Confronted with huge cuts to its federal funding, Columbia University’s leaders face a grim decision: They can yield to the Trump administration’s demands over allegations of antisemitism — ceding extraordinary control to the federal government — or they can fight back, potentially risking even more debilitating cuts in an escalating clash.

A Columbia University student activist who was detained by the U.S. government over his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations has the right to challenge the legality of his detention, but the case should be heard in New Jersey, rather than in New York or Louisiana, a judge ruled Wednesday. Mahmoud Khalil, 30, a legal U.S. resident with no criminal record,...

Mahmoud Khalil said he is being targeted as part of an effort to repress Palestinian voices in a letter dictated from a Louisiana immigration center.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Columbia University concealed “illegal aliens” on its campus, one of its top officials said Friday, as the Trump administration intensified its campaign to deport foreigners who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school last year. Agents with the Department of Homeland Security searched two university residences with a warrant Thursday evening. No...

The American Civil Liberties Union released a 2-minute video documenting the arrest last weekend of Mahmoud Khalil, an activist who helped lead many protests on Columbia University’s campus last year. “Plainclothes agents detain and take Mahmoud Khalil from his home. His wife, Noor Abdalla, who is 8 months pregnant, recorded the video,” the ACLU wrote in a caption posted to…

The Trump administration’s crackdown on college campuses is ramping up with the arrest of another student at Columbia University accused of taking part in what they describe as pro-Hamas protests. NBC News 4 New York’s Melissa Colorado reports. 

A second Columbia University student involved with last year’s protests has been arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with Homeland Security Investigations, while another had her student visa revoked and self-deported, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday. Columbia University couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. The night before, DHS agents searched the dorm rooms of two...

A government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the legal fight over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to either New Jersey or Louisiana. The request was made Wednesday during a hearing in New York City. Khalil is a Columbia University graduate student whom the Trump Administration is trying to deport over his role in pro-Palestinian protests at the...

Tracie Strahan reports.