Eliana Birman, a student at Barnard College and assistant digital editor for The Jewish Link, told Newsmax on Monday that she’s “hoping” the school will follow the requirements laid out by the Trump administration but noted that the agreement is “just words” for now.

Last week, Columbia University issued a memo announcing that the school agreed to follow the Trump administration’s demands aimed at combating anti-Israel protests on campus after the administration threatened to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding if the school didn’t comply.

Birman, in an interview with “Wake Up America,” said she’s “hoping” Columbia, Barnard’s sister school, will embrace the demands of the Trump administration but said the agreement to comply is “just words” so far.

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