Overview

• Stefanik demanded that Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez step down and urged Gov. Kathy Hochul to press for his removal during a July 15 hearing.
• The congresswoman lambasted CUNY for allowing a swastika to remain at Hunter College for hours pending a hate crime probe by the NYPD.
• She questioned the 2021 hiring of Saly Abd Alla, a former Council on American-Islamic Relations employee, as CUNY’s chief diversity officer.
• Stefanik highlighted that CUNY CLEAR, the university’s legal clinic, is funding the defense of activist Mahmoud Khalil with taxpayer dollars.
• Rodríguez pledged internal investigations and cooperation with law enforcement but announced no firings or resignations.