CNN —The president and board chairs of Columbia University have agreed to testify next month at a Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. The House Education and Workforce Committee announced Monday it will hold a hearing on April 17 featuring Columbia President Minouche Shafik and the two co-chairs of the board of trustees: Claire Shipman and David Greenwald. The Columbia president declined the invitation due to a scheduling conflict, according to the Columbia Spectator. Last month, the House Education Committee widened its campus antisemitism investigation to include Columbia and demanded the Ivy League school turn over a wide range of documents to aid that probe. Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at the Columbia Business School, called Shafik a “coward” in a fiery speech last year criticizing the university president for failing to quiet “pro-terror” voices at the school.

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Persons: Minouche Shafik, Claire Shipman, David Greenwald, Shafik, Penn, ”, Virginia Foxx, Eden Yadegar, ’ ”, Yadegar, Samantha Slater, Israel, Shai Davidai Organizations: CNN, Columbia University, Education, Workforce, Columbia, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia Spectator, Harvard, House, Committee, Ivy League, Israel, Columbia University Columbia, Department of Education, Columbia Business School Locations: Columbia, Israel