After Columbia Revokes #ProPalestine #Protesters' Degrees, Alumna Says Time to Burn Our Diplomas | Common Dreams

by Jennifer Scarlott, March 16, 2025

"In May of 1986, I received a master’s degree from #ColumbiaUniversity’s School of International and Public Affairs. That degree has been a proud part of my resume in the many years since.

As Columbia rushes to appease the Trump administration by expelling, suspending, and revoking the degrees of a growing number of students accused of peaceful protest and exercising their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly, I unequivocally renounce my degree and any affiliation with the university. I charge Columbia with complicity in the #genocide in #Gaza and the #WestBank and with terrorizing its anti-genocide, pro-#Palestine students, faculty, and staff. I charge Columbia with appeasement of and partnership with #fascist governments (Biden and Trump) in Washington.

"The shameless #capitulation of Columbia to government pressure is reflective of the corporate, neoliberal selling-out of academia. #Academia, exemplified by Columbia University, has surrendered its proclaimed mission of intellectual independence and endeavor, and the academic pursuit of knowledge and social advancement."

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