The university, the administration’s first big target in a campaign to root out what it called harassment on campus, could lose more than $50 million in funding.

Investigation comes on the heels of a dispute with a pro-Palestinian professor, who agreed to retire in January.

Columbia's new disciplinary office is raising alarm among students, faculty and free speech advocates, who accuse the school of bowing to President Donald Trump's threats to slash funding to universities and deport campus “agitators.