Columbia University stops promoting DHS career fair after faculty complaints

Columbia University decided to stop promoting a Department of Homeland Security career expo after faculty complaints came in, according to a Fox News report.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)–led virtual career fair scheduled for Feb. 18 was intended to introduce students to opportunities in federal law enforcement.

A coalition of faculty members objected sharply to the university’s promotion of the event, asserting that publicly advertising it made Columbia complicit in endorsing what they described as authoritarianism. 

“Silence will be read as consent,” the coalition warned in its statement.

The coalition argued that promoting the event “undermines campus trust, makes parts of our community feel targeted or unsafe, and further damages Columbia’s public standing by reinforcing the view that we are complicit in the turn towards authoritarianism.”

In response, Columbia officials pulled the career expo listing from its website.