Columbia University President Minouche Shafik's leadership is under fire.
FILE -President of Columbia University Nemat Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on"Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Columbia University president Nemat Shafik is no stranger to navigating complex international issues, having worked at some of the worlds most prominent global financial institutions.
The task before her — to balance the demands of students, faculty and politicians — is also a reflection of just how complex governing universities has become in this day and age, when college footprints have grown ever larger, observers say. And it echoes the experience of a growing number of university leaders who, like Shafik, come from nonacademic backgrounds.
In a written statement to Congress preceding her in-person testimony, Shafik described a childhood in Egypt and then in the Southeast as schools were desegregating, saying those experiences gave her the skills necessary “to engage with and learn from people with a wide array of backgrounds and experience overcoming discrimination firsthand.”
“Oftentimes, all three groups have different ideas of what the college is and how well the president is doing their job ... and the president might have a different definition of how they think that they’re successful," Cho said. After obtaining her master's degree at the London School of Economics, she went on to earn a doctorate at Oxford University. She rose through the ranks at the World Bank, eventually becoming the bank’s youngest-ever vice president.
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