Trump, Columbia and Harvard University
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The White House is pursuing heavy fines from Harvard and other universities as part of potential settlements to end investigations into campus antisemitism, using the deal it struck with Columbia University as a template,
A deal to resolve allegations that the university failed to protect Jewish students from harassment is expected to include a fine of about $200 million.
The Trump administration is in talks with several schools about future funding following allegations of antisemitism.
Cornell University is advancing in talks with the Trump administration to reinstate hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding amid efforts by the White House to get schools to resolve allegations of campus antisemitism,
The White House is reportedly seeking concessions from Cornell, among several elite universities that the Trump administration says failed to prevent campus antisemitism, in exchange for resuming federal funding.
Education lawyers and advocates said Columbia’s deal with the White House was a potentially dangerous government intrusion into higher education.
Columbia University's agreement to pay more than $220 million to the U.S. government to resolve federal probes was not capitulation but a means to restore vital public funding, the university's acting president said on Thursday.
The university is expected to pay a multimillion-dollar settlement to victims of alleged civil rights violations and implement changes to its diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
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