A House committee announced it has issued subpoenas to six Columbia University officials, accusing them of slow-walking the congressional investigation into rising antisemitic activity at the Ivy League institution.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee said Wednesday that subpoenas have been sent to Columbia Interim President Katrina Armstrong, who took over last week after the abrupt resignation of former President Minouche Shafik, as well as five leaders of the board of trustees.

“Columbia should be a partner in our efforts to ensure Jewish students have a safe learning environment on its campus, but instead, university administrators have slow-rolled the investigation, repeatedly failing to turn over necessary documents,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx, North Carolina Republican, who chairs the committee.

The subpoenas come two days after Ms. Foxx released a report showing that the vast majority of student protesters remain in good standing at Columbia — and that no student has been expelled — despite infractions that include breaking into and occupying Hamilton Hall.

Columbia becomes the second university, after Harvard, to face subpoenas since the committee began its investigation into rising campus antisemitism in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians and others, which prompted Israel to declare war.

Ms. Foxx said that Columbia has failed to supply “a substantial number of text and electronic messages,” as well as notes, summaries and recordings of board minutes, despite repeated requests from the committee.

Columbia did supply an initial list of student disciplinary cases, but it only includes incidents since April 17, according to the panel.

“The information we have obtained points to a continued pattern of negligence towards antisemitism and a refusal to stand up to the radical students and faculty responsible for it,” Ms. Foxx said. “The goal of this investigation has always been to protect Jewish students and faculty, and if compulsory measures are necessary to obtain the documents the Committee requires, so be it.”

The deadline for Columbia to produce the subpoenaed documents is Sept. 4.

The Washington Times has reached out to Columbia for comment.

The committee has doggedly pursued antisemitism investigation into a host of top universities, including Harvard, Northwestern, Rutgers, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California Berkeley, since the post-Oct. 7 surge of anti-Israel protests.

In February, the panel served subpoenas on Harvard for “failing to produce priority documents related to the Committee’s antisemitism investigation.”

The committee report released Sunday found that 18 of the 22 students arrested for occupying Hamilton Hall on April 30 are in good standing, with three on interim suspensions and one on probation, even though Columbia said they would “face expulsion.”

“By allowing its own disciplinary process to be thwarted by radical students and faculty, Columbia has waved the white flag in surrender while offering up a get-out-of-jail-free card to those who participated in these unlawful actions,” Ms. Foxx said.

• Valerie Richardson can be reached at vrichardson@washingtontimes.com.