A Columbia University student criticized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “decision-making” class for lacking depth and authenticity, saying she came across more as a politician “while reading passages from her book.” 

Clinton’s class “Inside the Situation Room,” which she co-teaches alongside Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo, exposes students to foreign policy topics and is supposed to instruct students about how to make decisions at a national level. Fox News reported that the student, Laalitya Acharya, found the former secretary of state unrelatable, according to a TikTok video posted in December 2023.