The University of Columbia agreed to the Trump administration to pay a $ 200m (£ 147M) to the Trump administration on the allegations that it failed to protect its Jewish students.
The settlement, which will be paid to the federal government in three years, was announced in a statement by the university on Wednesday.
In turn, the government has agreed to refund some of $ 400m in Federal Grants, which has been freeze or abolished in March.
Columbia was the first school targeted by the administration for its alleged failures to curb antisemiamism in its New York City campus last year. It had already agreed to a set of demands from the White House in April.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that the deal with the University of Columbia is “a seismic change in our country’s fight”.
“The agreement is a significant step ahead after a period of continuous federal investigation and institutional uncertainty,” a acting president Claire Shipman of Columbia said in a statement.
Columbia is one of the list of universities that have been carried forward by the Trump administration by the Trump administration, including transgender athletes and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs on protests and other issues against Israel’s war campaign in Gaza.
According to a tracker from the Center for American Progress, a Liberal Think Tank, the government has targeted more than 4,000 grants in over 600 universities and colleges across the US.
A month after Trump was sworn in, his administration snatched a $ 400m Colombia in federal funds on the allegations of antisementism.
Frozen funds pose an immediate threat to the university’s research, causing Ms. Shipman in June that things had reached “tipping points”.
The White House’s decision inspired Colombia to implement the campus rules sought by the administration, which included the re -organizations of the Middle Eastern Studies Department, and empowered students to remove and arrest students from the campus to hire a team of “Special Officers”.
Columbia said that as part of its monetary settlement, a vast majority of canceled or stalled grants would be restored.
Several changes in the agreement have been cordoned which the college has already announced and includes that a jointly selected independent monitor will be appointed to assess the implementation of the agreement.
Some of those adjustments include disciplinary students who were part of encroachment in the university campus as part of Gaza protests, protesters required to show campus IDs, not allowed face masks during protests, more monitoring of student groups and providing expansion of authorities on campus.
The university said that settlement was not an entry of wrongdoing.
Shipman said, “The agreement is an important step after a continuous federal investigation and period of institutional uncertainty.”
“Settlement was carefully designed to protect the values that define us and allow our necessary research partnership to be brought back to the track with the federal government.”
He said that the terms of the agreement would protect the freedom of the school.
Columbia’s desire to follow the university in March was found with a thorough criticism of some people, who realized that the IV League College had accepted its freedom.
Harvard has taken the opposite view.
Although the government has suspended billions in funding from the university and has shifted its ability to enroll international students, sue the Harvard administration.
Harvard, the hearing in the case between the country’s richest university and the White House, the government of the government began on Monday.
The Trump administration has indicated that it is hoping that the school will go more towards Colombia.
In his statement, McMahon called Colombia’s reforms “a roadmap for elite universities who want to regain the trust of the American public”.
“I am confident that they will wave in the higher education sector and change the syllabus of the campus culture for the coming years,” he said.
