Columbia University

Columbia University said Friday its interim president, Katrina A. Armstrong, is stepping aside, a week after the university struck a deal with the Trump administration to negotiate its federal funding, NBC News reported.

The Trump administration recently pulled $400 million in funding over how the university handled protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

Columbia University agreed to implement a suite of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.

Mahmoud Khalil said he is being targeted as part of an effort to repress Palestinian voices in a letter dictated from a Louisiana immigration center.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who helped lead student protests at Columbia University, faces deportation after being arrested over the weekend by federal immigration officials.

A federal judge in New York blocked the Trump administration from deporting a prominent Palestinian activist who was arrested over the weekend for helping lead protests last spring at Columbia University.

The Trump administration announced a dramatic funding cut on Friday, saying it would cut federal grants and contracts worth $400 million from Columbia University for “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”