Columbia sister school Barnard College lays off dozens of employees weeks after antisemitism suit settlement

Source: New York Post

Barnard College has made a “painful” announcement that it will lay off nearly 80 full-time employees as part of a “college-wide staff restructuring,” school officials said Thursday. The layoffs come about three weeks after Barnard leaders agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by Jewish students claiming the Columbia University-affiliated school failed to properly address campus antisemitism. 3 Students from Barnard College and sister school Columbia University would often participate in disruptive and, at times, violent protests on each other’s campuses in the wake of Hamas’ Oct.