Last Friday, Columbia University released an unsigned program of concessions to recover $400 million in federal funds canceled after a Justice Department investigation found that the university had failed to protect civil rights on campus.

Among other reforms, Columbia, which receives over $1 billion in federal funds annually, pledged to strengthen disciplinary and antidiscrimination policies, review admissions procedures, ban identity-concealing masks, create a security force empowered to arrest violent protesters, and appoint an unnamed “senior vice provost” to review regional studies programs, starting with Columbia’s controversial programs in Middle East Studies.

In this announcement and other recent statements, Columbia has claimed to recognize what it calls “legitimate concerns” about its abysmal failure to protect Jewish students and normal campus life, especially since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

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