After months of negotiations to restore federal financing, Columbia University He has reached an agreement with the Trump administration to resolve federal investigations on government accusations that the school violated discrimination laws.
The University will pay an agreement of approximately three years to the federal government, in accordance with a Press releaseand Columbia has been agreed to resolve the probes presented by the US Employment Opportunities Commission for $ 21 million. According to the agreement, most federal subsidies that were completed or detained in March will be restored. The school said it will maintain autonomy and authority over the hiring of the faculty, admissions and academic decision making.
“This agreement marks an important step forward after a period of sustained federal scrutiny and institutional uncertainty,” said the interim president of Claire Shipman University in a statement. “The agreement was carefully prepared to protect the values that define us and allow the essential research association with the federal government to return to the track. It is important to highlight that our independence safeguards, a critical condition for academic and academic excellence”
The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, described the agreement “a seismic change in the struggle of our nation to hold the institutions that accept dollars from US taxpayers responsible for discrimination and anti -Semitic harassment.”
“Columbia’s reforms are a road map for elite universities that want statement. “I think they extend to the higher education sector and change the course of campus culture in the coming years.”
Earlier this year, the Trump administration sent a letter to the university with nine demands to meet as a condition prior to the negotiations surrounding its federal funds. With $ 400 million in key funds on the line, Columbia concrete And it agreed to prohibit students from using masks on campus in order to hire identity -duration protests, with exceptions for religious and health reasons. He also agrees to increase the security of his campus hiring 36 new security officers, who, unlike the past, will have the authority to judge students and install a new senior vice -presses to monitor the Department of the Middle East, studies in southern Asia and African.
However, university financing was not yet restored after capitulations, and negotiations extended for months.
Columbia is the first university to reach an agreement on the accusations of the Trump administration of anti -Semitism on the campus. Harvard University presented a Federal Demand Against the government and accused him of violating the first amendment after the administration freezing billions of dollars in federal funds. The Ivy League and the Trump administration are currently fighting in the Court for restoring more than $ 2 billion in federal funds.
