Columbia President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik was out of the country in December when three of her colleagues in academia — two of them at Ivy League schools — appeared before Congress to talk about antisemitism on their campuses.

Two of those three are no longer university presidents after the infamous Dec. 5 hearing on Capitol Hill. To be forewarned is forearmed for Shafik, who has had five months to prepare since erstwhile presidents Liz Magill (Pennsylvania) and Claudine Gay (Harvard) gave staggering answers regarding campus policies about antisemitism and calls for genocide on their campuses, which resulted in widespread backlash, outrage and ultimately their resignations.

However, Congress, specifically, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, has also had five months to scrutinize Columbia’s efforts to combat antisemitism, and Shafik hopes to have better answers than Gay and Magill.  

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