The University of Columbia will pay $ 200 million in the federal government to restore the majority of funding which has been reduced by the Trump administration for allegations that it has violated anti-discrimination laws.
“This agreement marks an important before after a period of supported federal control and institutional uncertainty,” said the president of the acting university, Claire Shipman, in a statement.
The Trump administration in March said he canceled $ 400 million in grants At school, accusing him of “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students”.
Columbia then Accepted a list of requests from the Trump administrationthat some criticisms have considered a capitulation of the private university.
President Donald Trump celebrated the agreement On social truth Wednesday evening and showed no sign that the administration’s pressure campaign on universities was over.
“Many other higher education establishments that have injured so many people and who have been so unfair and unfair, and who have wrongly spent federal money, largely from our government, are to come,” he wrote.
Columbia declared in the Wednesday declaration by virtue of the agreement “a large majority of federal subsidies which were terminated or interrupted in March 2025 – will be reinstated and the access of Columbia to billions of dollars of current and future subsidies will be restored.”
“This includes the reintegration of the majority of subsidies previously dismissed by the National Institutes of Health and the Ministry of Health and Social Services, the renewal of non -competitive subsidies, the publication of late payments on active and unpleasant subsidies and eligibility for Columbia to apply for new federal research funds in the ordinary course,” said the university.
Columbia and other universities were targeted by the Trump administration on student demonstrations against war in Gaza, which, according to some republican legislators, were anti -Semites.
Another great Ivy League College of Harvard University, refused Trump’s requests and continued the Trump administration on threats to reduce funding. This case is pending.
“Although Columbia does not admit the reprehensible acts of this resolution agreement, the leaders of the institution recognized, on several occasions, that Jewish students and professors have experienced painful and unacceptable incidents, and this reform was and is necessary,” the University said in the Wednesday declaration.
Columbia said that the agreement will establish an “independent instructor selected jointly” – and that he will regularly provide reports on his “continuous compliance with applicable laws and regulations concerning admissions, hiring and international students”.
He declared that the agreement also codifies the changes announced previously on the security, discipline and inclusion of the campus.
The $ 200 million, called a regulation by the university, will be paid to the government over three years.
He will also pay $ 21 million to settle surveys by the US Equality Employment Commission, the University said.
The Columbia Administration Committee, the co -chairs, David Greenwald and Jeh Johnson, declared in the Wednesday declaration that the agreement “confirms the changes already underway in Columbia to fight against anti -Semitism significantly on our campus and allows the University to continue to undertake its research and its transformative scholarships.”
The demonstrations of students against the war in Gaza, which Israel launched after the surprise terrorist attack in Hamas on October 7, 2023, took place on university campuses across the United States, including in Columbia.
Trump campaigned to attack these demonstrations, and since his entry into office, his administration has sought to expel certain students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations by accusing them of sympathizing with Hamas.
US Secretary for Education Linda McMahon called the columbia colony “A seismic change in the struggle of our country to hold the institutions that accept the dollars of American taxpayers responsible for anti -Semitic discrimination and harassment.”
Brian Cohen, executive director of the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life with Columbia / Barnard Hillel, praised the agreement.
“This announcement is an important recognition of what Jewish students and their families have expressed with an increasing emergency: anti-Semitism in Columbia is real, and it has had a tangible impact on the feeling of security and belonging of Jewish students and, in turn, their civil rights,” he said.
Shipman, the president of Columbia, said In a letter to the university community that Columbia remains independent.
“No provision of this agreement, individually or taken together, will be interpreted as giving the American authority to dictate the hiring of professors, university hiring, admission decisions or the content of academic discourse,” she wrote in the letter, citing the agreement.
“It was our northern star, and we don’t have a diverted one,” wrote Shipman. “Columbia’s governance remains under our control. The federal government will not dictate what we teach, which teaches, nor what students we admit.”