In a settlement with President Donald Trump’s administration, Columbia University announced Wednesday that it will pay the US government more than $200 million to stop federal investigations and return the majority of its federal funding that had been suspended.
Since taking office again in January, Trump has singled out a number of universities in response to the pro-Palestinian student protest movement that rocked college campuses the previous year. In a social media post late Wednesday, he praised the deal between his government and Columbia.
The Trump administration said in March that it was rescinding $400 million in federal funds to Columbia as a kind of punishment for its handling of the demonstrations the previous year. It argued that Columbia had not done enough to address the alleged antisemitism and harassment of Israeli and Jewish students.
