Columbia pulls promotion for DHS career expo after faculty claims university is aiding 'authoritarianism'

Columbia University pulled promotion for a Department of Homeland Security–affiliated virtual vocation expo aft module members objected that advertizing the lawsuit amounted to endorsing "authoritarianism."

The event, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Virtual Career Expo scheduled for Feb. 18, invites prospective applicants to chat online with recruiters astir careers successful national instrumentality enforcement. According to the New York Post, the lawsuit advertised that aggregate Department of Homeland Security agencies would beryllium present.

The Post cited a connection from an unnamed module conjugation that argued promoting the lawsuit "undermines field trust, makes parts of our assemblage consciousness targeted oregon unsafe, and further damages Columbia’s nationalist lasting by reinforcing the presumption that we are complicit successful the crook towards authoritarianism." 

"Silence volition beryllium work arsenic consent," the conjugation said.

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Protesters, mostly students calling for greater protections against ICE actions, are arrested by New York constabulary aft blocking a thoroughfare extracurricular Columbia University connected Feb. 5, 2026, successful New York City. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

In effect to the criticism, Columbia University officials said the listing was not an endorsement of the event, which appeared connected its School of Professional Studies’ (SPS) Career Design Lab website done 12twenty, an outer online recruitment level that provides students and alumni entree to occupation postings and hiring events from a wide web of employers.

"SPS and the University bash not power oregon prime the employers disposable connected the 12twenty network. Job opportunities oregon vocation expo events made disposable connected the level should not beryllium construed arsenic a sponsorship oregon endorsement by SPS oregon the University. These events instrumentality spot virtually and nary students are required to participate," the assemblage said.

It noted that the 12twenty level includes assorted employers, including different national agencies similar the CDC, EPA, FBI, FDA, FEMA and IRS.

A pupil walks done information astatine Columbia University. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital.)

In an updated connection issued Feb. 11, Columbia said the Career Design Lab website volition present item lone events organized by SPS, but students and alumni tin proceed to entree the broader scope of outer opportunities done the 12twenty platform.

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 New York City–based quality outlet amNY spoke with retired schoolteacher Rich Candia, who defended the vocation expo and argued that students should person entree to accusation astir national instrumentality enforcement and vocation opportunities.

"This is rather hypocritical due to the fact that the schools beforehand ‘choice’ but they are denying prime erstwhile they hinder the posting of specified employment," Candia told the outlet. "There’s going to beryllium absorption to galore issues, but by not promoting the national government’s event, they are denying the assemblage of students who whitethorn person a profound involvement successful this peculiar livelihood."