Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220M in deal with Trump to restore federal funding
Also in the settlement is an agreement to ask prospective international students “questions designed to elicit their reasons for wishing to study in the United States,” and establishes processes to make sure all students are committed to “civil discourse.”
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00:00Columbia University says it has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to restore federal funding cut over alleged campus anti-Semitism.
00:14The university had already lost $400 million in grants and risked losing billions more.
00:21Under the agreement, Columbia will pay $200 million over three years, plus $21 million to settle claims of civil rights violations against Jewish employees after Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel.
00:36The Trump administration said it cut funding over the university's failure to curb campus anti-Semitism during the Israel-Hamas war.
00:44Columbia was one of the first targets of President Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus protests.
00:52He accused the university of allowing harassment of Jewish students.
00:57But protest leaders and some Jewish students say the demonstrations were not anti-Semitic.
01:03They say they were protesting the Israeli government and the war on Gaza.
