{"id":2238315,"date":"2024-05-06T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-calls-on-columbia-board-to-remove-president-after-main-graduation-gets-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:50:49","slug":"speaker-johnson-calls-on-columbia-board-to-remove-president-after-main-graduation-gets-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-calls-on-columbia-board-to-remove-president-after-main-graduation-gets-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson urges Columbia Board to oust President over canceled main graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspeaker-johnson-calls-on-columbia-board-to-remove-president-after-main-graduation-gets-cancelled%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2238315&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House \u200dSpeaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called for Columbia \u2063University President Minouche Shafik&#8217;s removal \u200cafter \u2064the \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usc-cancels-main-commencement-ceremony-after-far-left-extremists-disrupt-campus\/\" title=\"USC Cancels Graduation Event Amid Campus Disruption\">main commencement ceremony<\/a> cancellation due to pro-Palestinian protests. Johnson emphasized the need for new leadership and criticized Shafik&#8217;s handling of the\u2064 situation.\u2064 Despite Johnson&#8217;s urging, the university&#8217;s Board\u2062 of Trustees expressed strong support for President Shafik amid\u2063 the turmoil.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/columbia-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Columbia University<\/a> President Minouche Shafik to be removed from her position after her Ivy League school announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/columbia-university-nixes-main-commencement-event-after-protest-chaos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancellation<\/a> of its main commencement ceremony after pro-Palestinian protests disrupted the New York City campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-fbi-special-agent-finds-17514-georgia-voters-with-out-of-state-forwarded-mail-addresses\/\" title=\"Former FBI Special Agent Finds 17,514 Georgia Voters with Out-of-State Forwarded Mail Addresses\">abundantly clear<\/a> that President Shafik would rather <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ronna-mcdaniel-joe-biden-is-colluding-with-big-tech-to-suppress-free-speech\/\" title=\"RONNA MCDANIEL: Joe Biden Is Colluding With Big Tech To Suppress Free Speech\">cede control<\/a> to Hamas supporters than restore order, Columbia\u2019s Board of Trustees should immediately remove her and appoint a new president who will,\u201d Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerJohnson\/status\/1787493055563514059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cOur once great universities desperately need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-says-americas-problem-is-weve-lost-faith-in-god-and-the-american-people\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley: America's Issue - Lack of Faith in God and its People\">strong moral leadership<\/a>, now more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson led a House delegation to Columbia University last month and called on Shafik to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/speaker-johnson-calls-on-columbia-president-shafik-to-resign-very-weak-inept-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resign<\/a> if she could not \u201cimmediately bring order to this chaos.\u201d He also pledged that the Congress would \u201cnot be silent\u201d as reports of anti-Semitic harassment led to concerns about the safety of Jewish students.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbia University Board of Trustees released a statement shortly after the visit, saying that it\u00a0\u201cstrongly supports President Shafik as she steers the university through this extraordinarily challenging time,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/speaker-johnson-calls-columbia-university-president-resign-threatens-f-rcna149249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the search process for this role, President Shafik told us that she would always take a thoughtful approach to resolving conflict, balancing the disparate voices that make up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-more-taxpayers-pay-for-college-the-worse-it-gets\/\" title=\"The More Taxpayers Pay For College, The Worse It Gets\">vibrant campus<\/a> like Columbia\u2019s, while taking a firm stance against hatred, harassment and discrimination. That\u2019s exactly what she\u2019s doing now,\u201d the board said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are urgently working with her to help resolve the situation on campus and rebuild the bonds of our community; we encourage everyone who cares about Columbia to join us in that effort,\u201d the board added.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, Shafik said talks with student organizers had broken down, and Columbia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/columbia-university-will-not-divest-from-israel-president-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would not divest<\/a> from Israel as the protesters had demanded. At Shafik\u2019s request, the\u00a0New York Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/columbia-university-protests-protesters-occupy-hamilton-hall-hours-after-encampment-deadline\/14744812\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent officers<\/a> to clear Hamilton Hall, which protesters had seized, and a lawn encampment. She also asked the police to stay on campus for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Columbia announced on Monday that instead of holding a main graduation event on May 15, feedback from deans and colleagues working with student leaders led to the decision to make school-level ceremonies the \u201ccenterpiece\u201d of commencement events away from the lawn where protesters had set up camp.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson argued that \u201cShafik and Columbia University administrators have displayed a shocking unwillingness to control their campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThey\u2019ve allowed outside agitators and terrorist-sympathizing students and faculty to rewrite campus rules and spew vile, anti-Jewish aggression. Now, thousands of students who\u2019ve worked hard to achieve their degrees will not get the recognition they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) demands Columbia University President Minouche Shafik&#8217;s ousting following the cancellation of the main commencement ceremony due to pro-Palestinian protests. He asserts that President Shafik&#8217;s actions indicate a willingness to yield control to Hamas supporters, prompting calls for her removal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2238316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2150032193-scaled-e1715010672789.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2150032193-scaled-e1715010672789.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2238316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}