Tonya J. Powers breaks down Columbia's settlement with the White House

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tanya jay Powers, our Fox correspondent in New York, New York.
Good morning, Welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
In, Tanya, Thank thanks for having me. Ellen.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Well, the White House, I mean, you know, they're looking
for all kinds of fines on other big name universities
and you know, consequences for not you know, clamping down
on anti Semitism on their campuses movement in the right direction.
I think, So who else is in the crosshairs?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, the federal government has already crowsen more than a
billion dollars of funding for Cornell University as well as
seven hundred and ninety million at Northwestern University. I would
imagine those two are probably you know, in the crosshairs
as well well when.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
We talk about this does this impact because you know,
you look at the amount of money that Harvard's got
in their endowments and grants, and you know, not all
of it's federal money. In fact, you know, if the
President slammed a big tax or you know, fee or
fine or whatever you want to call it on them
and pull federal funding, are a lot of these universities

(00:57):
in trouble financially if they in fact get that levied
against them.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I mean that's a good question. The other the other
kind of big thing that goes along with is remember
like Columbia is let's take Columbia for example, because that's
the one that they've just settled with with the two
hundred million dollars fine. Colombia is a is a research
I mean, that's one of the things we keep hearing
a lot about is what they do at these colleges.
Harvard is also one of the ones that you know,

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has a lot of research going on that you know
ultimately benefits you know, all kinds of Americans health research,
that kind of thing. I mean, Columbia was the first
school in the US to even grant an MB degree,
like the like the first doctors in the country came
from Columbia. So that's what they've done for a really
long time. This agreement, by the way, is there's a

(01:47):
lot of i won't say strings attached, but there's a
lot of things that go into that agreement for these sides.
For Columbia, the reason I'm pointing this out is because
you can kind of extrapolate that and see what could
potentially be coming for these other universities. Columbia gets their
federal funding back in exchange for the spine the investigations

(02:07):
into their toleration of harassment of Jewish students and employees,
that all those investigations get closed as well. But Columbia
also has to make sure it's mission decisions are merit
based and with no considerations of race. They have to
hire more Jewish studies faculty, they have to reduce the
university's reliance on international students. A lot of these universities

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that we're they're talking about here, Harvard and Cornell and Northwestern,
you know, all have quite a bit of you know,
international students in their in their student body. So this
is kind of you know, I guess what we can
expect from these other schools. I mean, Harvard is the
one that has pushed back the most, as we've seen.
The President said on you know, on Friday before he

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left the White House, he said, you know that Harvard
might not ever get the level of federal funding back
that it's gotten in the past, even if there's a settlement.
So it kind of depends on, you know how That's
how the President feels about it, quite honestly. I mean,
the Education Secretary, Linda m it Mann has already called
this a roadmap, you know, the way they dealt with Columbia,

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they've called it a roadmap. This is what they're basically
going to do with with other schools as well well.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
I hope it continues to push back on these schools
that have been doing this practice for so long, because
it's just wrong. The anti Semitism around this country is,
you know, on just a rampant run right now, and
it's just awful to see. And I really don't understand
how Jewish Americans vote Democrat whatsoever because of what's been
going on with these policies and these universities. But it

(03:39):
is what it is, and hopefully things are getting, you know,
back to the right direction. Tana Jay Powers, thank you
so much.