The interim president of Columbia University is stepping down, the school announced Friday, a week after announcing sweeping policy changes – seemingly bowing to the Trump administration’s demands conditioned on federal funding.

Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.

Dozens of faculty members protested on Monday against what they see as Columbia’s capitulation to the federal government’s demands.

The former television journalist and co-chair of the university’s board of trustees takes the helm at a time of significant peril for the institution.

Interim president Katrina Armstrong returned to her post running the New York school's medical center after news the university acquiesced to sweeping demands from the White House.

President Minouche Shafik resigned last August in the wake of massive protests that made Columbia the epicenter of student demonstrations over the Gaza war, and that led to a significant police response.