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Columbia University President Resigns

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Claire Shipman, co-chair of the school's Board of Trustees, will assume the role effective immediately, according to an announcement on the school's website.
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Protests against Columbia University are breaking out after the school agreed to Trump administration's demands to change its policies to restore federal funding.
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