{"id":5732,"date":"2025-03-29T00:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T00:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2025-03-29T00:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T00:37:36","slug":"columbia-university-interim-president-katrina-armstrong-is-stepping-down-university-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=5732","title":{"rendered":"Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong is stepping down, university says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Katrina Armstrong will be stepping down &#8220;effective immediately&#8221; as Columbia University&#8217;s interim president, the school said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Armstrong was announced as the interim president of the New York City university in August 2024 after then-President Minouche Shafik <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/columbia-university-president-minouche-shafik-resigns-months-after\/story?id=112848583\" target=\"_blank\">announced her<\/a> immediate resignation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Dr. Armstrong accepted the role of interim president at a time of great uncertainty for the University and worked tirelessly to promote the interests of our community,&#8221; said David J. Greenwald, chair of the Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The school said Armstrong would be returning to lead the university&#8217;s Irving Medical Center and that Board of Trustees Co-Chair Claire Shipman has been appointed acting president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katrina Armstrong will be stepping down &#8220;effective immediately&#8221; as Columbia University&#8217;s interim president, the school said on Friday. Armstrong was announced as the interim president of the New York City university in August 2024 after then-President Minouche Shafik announced her immediate resignation. &#8220;Dr. Armstrong accepted the role of interim president at a time of great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5734,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions\/5734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}