A federal judge on Thursday ordered Colombia University and Barnard College to refrain from adhering to the request of the Republican House of Representatives Committee for the discipline of students, at least until next week a session on the request by Mahmoud Khalil and other students.
Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University, filed a lawsuit earlier this month and called for the obstruction of the Education Committee to obtain disciplined registration for students participating in the demonstrations.
US Judge Arun Subramanan held a meeting on Tuesday.
The request was filed in the Federal Court in Manhattan against schools, the committee and its president, Republican representative Tim Walberg, a Republican Republican Republican, calling for a permanent ban that prevents Congress from forceing schools to provide records and universities to comply with the request.
Last month, the committee sent a letter calling for Colombia and Barnard to provide records or endanger billions of dollars in the federal budget.
The judge’s order comes as Colombia faces a deadline from the Trump administration this week to comply with demands for major changes to the federal budget, including $400 million, which was previously posed by accusations that it has failed to protect students and anti-Jews.
The list includes the establishment of schools in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa under academic admission for at least five years, which have a new definition of anti-Semiticism and corrects its admission policies.
On Thursday, a group of history teachers in Colombia wrote a letter to the school leadership asking them to reject what they called “autopist” to dominate colleges and universities.
“If this control is achieved, here or elsewhere, any real historical science will make it impossible to teach and intellectual society,” the professors wrote in the letter. They referred to the management of their interventions “we have the ability to think about the past, the present and the future.
Academers also gave a short history lesson in the letter, referring to the past struggle for academic freedom at the school, including the expulsion of the faculty from World War I and a student who was expelled in 1936 after leading against Nazi protest. But they warned that the latest war was “differently different” in the previous conflicts.
When they were asked to comment on the professors, Colombian University officials referred to a statement issued Wednesday by the school chief Katrina Armstrong.
In this article, Armstrong said the school will continue to “participate in constructive discussions with our federal organizers,” including efforts to resolve anti-Semitic, harassment and discrimination, but “in our principles and academic values and freedom of expression that this institution has guided over the past 270 years.
“Legal questions can be asked about our practice and progress, and we will answer them. But we will never compromise on the values of pessimistic independence, our commitment to academic freedom, or we will not do our duty to follow the law,” he wrote.