Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, has announced her resignation. Although the timing—less than three weeks before the start of the fall semester—is "unexpected," according to The New York Times, her decision follows months of controversy surrounding her response to campus protests related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
She also testified before Congress in April regarding on-campus antisemitism. Shafik is the third Ivy League president to step down in the past year, following the departures of Harvard's Claudine Gay and the University of Pennsylvania's Liz Magill.
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