Shafik, who cited the toll the campus turmoil took on her family, becomes the third president of an Ivy League university to step down in the wake of campus protests over the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik has resigned, nearly four months after the university's handling of campus protests over Israel's war in Gaza.
The university announced Katrina Armstrong, dean of Columbia's medical school, would serve as interim president. Armstrong said in a statement she was"acutely aware of the trials the University has faced over the past year". Students with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a group behind the protests, welcomed the resignation but said it should not become a distraction from their efforts to have Columbia divest from companies that support Israel's military and its occupation of Palestinian territories.
Two other Ivy League presidents have resigned after facing congressional critics. Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania stepped down in December 2023 and Claudine Gay of Harvard quit a month later. Her position at Columbia was undermined when pro-Palestinian protesters set up dozens of tents on the main lawn.
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