In exchange, the university said in its statement, “a vast majority of the federal grants which were terminated or paused in March 2025 — will be reinstated and Columbia’s access to billions of dolla...

The university’s agreement with the Trump administration bodes ill for American higher education.

“Imagine selling your students out just so you can pay Trump $221 million dollars and keep funding genocide,” the pro-Palestinian group said on Wednesday, calling the settlement a bribe.

Columbia University has reached a more than $200 million agreement with the Trump administration to resolve multiple civil rights investigations, clearing the way for the reinstatement of millions of dollars in federal research funding and ending a months-long impasse that had rattled the Ivy League school’s finances and leadership.

Columbia University agreed on July 23, 2025, to pay a US$200 million fine to the federal government and to settle allegations that it did not create a safe environment for Jewish students during Pales...