Columbia University’s acting President Claire Shipman, before her promotion, last year sent messages suggesting that a Jewish member of the school’s board of trustees should be removed and that the Ivy League school needed to get an “Arab on our board,” according to text messages obtained by the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Shipman’s messages, sent while she was co-chairing the school’s board of trustees, were included in a letter that the House committee’s Chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich., and Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., sent to Columbia on Tuesday, reports The Washington Free Beacon.

The letter, addressing Shipman by name, asked for clarification on the messages and argued that the communications appeared to downplay campus antisemitism and could be a violation of civil rights law.

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