Columbia President Katrina Armstrong Steps Down Amid Battle With Trump. Claire Shipman, Wife of Obama Press Sec, Will Take the Job.
Shipman, a former ABC and CNN journalist, has close ties to Biden and Obama through husband Jay Carney Katrina Armstrong (Columbia) and Claire Shipman (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong stepped down on Friday amid the Ivy League school’s protracted battle with the Trump administration, Columbia announced in a statement. Her replacement,