Armstrong told some 75 professors assembled on a Saturday morning Zoom call that the Ivy League school had made “no changes” to rules about mask-wearing on campus, per a transcript of the call that the Free Beacon obtained.

“Much has been said about Columbia by people inside and outside of our community, sometimes without full context, including statements attributed to me from internal meetings,” Armstong stated on Tuesday. “Let there be no confusion: I commit to seeing these changes implemented with the full support of Columbia’s senior leadership team and the board of trustees.”

“Any suggestion that these measures are illusory or lack my personal support is unequivocally false,” she added. “These changes are real, and they are right for Columbia.”

Orri Zussman, 20, a freshman studying mechanical engineering at Columbia, told JNS that the school’s declared mask-banning policy is vague.

“If you look at the way that they phrased their ‘ban,’ it’s basically just re-emphasizing Columbia’s right to tell you to take off your mask if you’re doing something that violates their policy,” he said. “Then if you refuse to take off your mask, then they have the right to kick you off of campus.”

“In essence, nothing has changed,” he said. “There is no mask ban.”

“It seems that the university is being very two-faced,” he said. “They are trying to appease the administration and also just keep things the way that they are. They are just trying to get the money back without making any reforms, and it’s just absurdly frustrating.” (The Trump administration pulled some $400 million in grant monies from the school over, it said, Columbia’s mishandling of Jew-hatred on campus.)

Zussman told JNS that he has been following the news and is concerned that the culture on campus won’t improve.

“You feel like finally, there might be some change and there might be an end to this antisemitic rhetoric, to Hamas propaganda being handed out on campus, that their changes might finally be starting to take effect,” he said. “Then you get back to campus after spring break and nothing has changed.”

“It is super disappointing,” he said.

Jewish students on campus feel on edge, and many freshmen are actively considering studying abroad or even transferring schools, according to Zussman.

“This is an issue that could have been solved by the university,” he said. “We didn’t need to get to a point where, after a year and a half, the federal government gets involved.”

“The power was always in the university administration’s hands, and they didn’t use it effectively,” he said. “Hopefully, they can start actually making the reforms that they’re promising to make publicly, and then we can just see a return to normal, which is better for everyone.”

“The university has to take some real action and stop telling faculty behind closed doors one thing and then the public another,” he added.