Columbia announces deal to pay Trump administration more than $220m | Columbia University
The University of Columbia announced an expected agreement to pay more than 220 million dollars with the Trump administration, which aims to decide the school threatening the major financing outages, but will list the critics when the extraordinary privileges of the University of Ivy League.
According to the agreement, the school said that the federal government would pay an agreement of $ 200 million for three years. In addition, the US will pay $ 21 million to solve the investigations of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
“This agreement is taking an important step forward after the constant federal examination and institutional uncertainty period, Cla University President Claire Shipman said.
During the Israeli-Gazze War, which began in October 2023, the administration attracted financing because the university described it as the inability to silence anti-Semitism on campus.
Columbia firstly accepted a series of demands put forward by the Republican administration, including the university’s disciplinary process and adopting a new definition of anti -Semitism.
Shipman said that the agreement on Wednesday coded these reforms.
The agreement is the first agreement between a university and a presidential administration that defines a university and higher education institutions as “enemies ve and initiated an unprecedented campaign to reshape them. The government hid billions of grants and contracts from schools to force university administrators to comply with a comprehensive demand list.
In exchange for Columbia’s privileges, the White House will bring back the federal funds of the university earlier this year due to allegations that antisemitism allowed to inflammation on the campus.
However, although the Trump administration is likely to greet the agreement as a victory in the war against universities, some of the most restrictive measures sought by the administration were insufficient, such as a legally binding consent decision and the revision of Columbia’s governance structure.
At the beginning of this month, the university explained a number of new measures to fight more anti -Semitism on campus, including the controversial international Holocaust memorial definition and adoption of additional antisemitism education. Measures contribute to a few similar prevention by students, graduates and deputies accusing the pro -Pilist protests on the campus, which the university thinks to be antisemitic by students, graduates and deputies in the last two years.
The agreement, which regulates civil rights investigations to the university, will be audited by an independent monitor, which is accepted by both parties and will report to the government about its progress every six months.
