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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.
The current house for the president of Columbia University, located on the university's Morningside Heights campus, was built in 1912, and has served as the official residence of the university president since, with the exception of during the tenure of Michael Sovern, who chose to instead continue living in his Upper East Side apartment. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
National political leaders ratcheted up the pressure for Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to step down on Wednesday as pro-Palestinian protests continued at the school’s New York ...
The Columbia president was unable to attend in December due to long-scheduled travel, according to university spokesperson Samantha Slater. Within weeks, the leaders of both Harvard and Penn had ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Columbia University President Minouche Shafik resigned on Wednesday, nearly four months after the university's handling of campus protests over Israel's war in Gaza drew ...
Columbia University is an Ivy League university in New York where about one quarter of the undergraduate students are Jewish. [13] Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar, became Columbia's president in 2002, after having served for five years as the President of the University of Michigan. [14] Alan Brinkley became the provost of Columbia on ...