Ideological growth of a poison Ivy: Columbia's journey from...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : After an uproar, however, administrators succumbed and quietly released a list of 18 donors, which included the United Arab Emirates, a Palestinian oil magnate who supported anti-Israel policies, and other activists.
51% : While the extent of Arab-state funding is unknown, this much is certain: Columbia's postcolonial studies programs have steadily pushed BDS, Islamist and anti-Israel narratives on campus, with predictable results.
51% : Columbia has made several such big-money efforts in recent years: an initiative to hire faculty who study racism; funding to bolster the number of "underrepresented faculty candidates" hired in STEM fields and across all disciplines; a program to "ensure equity and enhance diversity in our graduate programs' applicant pools"; and grants "for faculty projects that engage with issues of structural racism.
49% : These systems of thought apply the basic principle of critical theory -- that politics is a conflict between oppressed and oppressor groups -- to the colonized populations of geopolitical history.
47% : Consider Fawziah Qadir, a Columbia-affiliated education professor and critical race theorist, who promises on her personal website to "transform education into a tool for liberation."

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