Columbia University has capitulated to Trump Administration demands in order to secure federal funding. The major concessions are as follows.
> Columbia will ban masks on campus during protests.
> The University will hire 36 more on campus police officers.
> The Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Departments will be placed under Academic Receivership for 5 years, meaning the departments will be run by an outside group while the existing staff will be put under their control.
> The University will adopt a “position of institutional neutrality”.
> The University will hire more Jewish academics for its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies in order to counter balance pro-Palestinian staff.
This would be a cause student activism could meaningfully engage unlike the usual fare that hardly moves the needle.