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Nemat Talaat Shafik, Baroness Shafik (born 13 August 1962), commonly known as Minouche Shafik, is a British-American academic and economist. [2] She served as the president and vice chancellor of the London School of Economics from 2017 to 2023, and then as the 20th president of Columbia University from July 2023 to August 2024.
In April 2024, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik condemned antisemitic acts by students and faculty in campus and said the university was in a "moral crisis". [4] United States president Joe Biden and New York City mayor Eric Adams condemned the 2024 anti-Israel protests as antisemitic and condemned the calls for violence and ...
As such, every single president of the university until the appointment of Dwight D. Eisenhower was Anglican, while the first six presidents, with the exception of William Samuel Johnson, were all either Anglican priests or bishops. [3] Michael I. Sovern, appointed in 1980, was the university's first Jewish president. [4]
On Tuesday, the president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik, became the latest to resign under pressure for the handling of protests. ... who is Jewish. Others, including University of ...
The president and board chairs of Columbia University have agreed to testify next month at a Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. The House Education and Workforce Committee announced ...
Columbia University President Dr. Minouche Shafik announced she was resigning on Wednesday. The announcement came months after she was criticized for her handling of antisemitism on campus and ...
Columbia University’s President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik faced questions from House Republicans on her handling of antisemitism on campus after the Oct. 7 attack. ... a Jewish student at ...
Lee Bollinger (J.D. 1971) – current president of Columbia; former president of University of Michigan; former Provost of Dartmouth College; First Amendment scholar; defendant in two key affirmative action cases in the United States Supreme Court; Chair of the Board of Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2011)