Trump vs. Columbia: Ivagous School to pay $ 200 million at landmark settlement; Campus protests curbed

The University of Columbia will now pay over $ 220 million with the Trump administration to make a major policy change as part of a disposal. The deal follows allegations of violation of civil rights and claims that the university failed to protect Jewish students from discrimination, as reported by New York Post.The Ivian League University will also be subject to federal monitoring, with independent monitoring to ensure that it follows the processes of merit-based entry and work. The agreement follows a four -month conversation and comes amid increasing pressure on elite universities such as Harvard, which has taken the administration to court over the loss of $ 2.6 billion in funding associated with similar issues.As part of the disposal, Columbia will pay $ 200 million to the federal government to resolve claims of discrimination and pay $ 20 million and more $ 20 million to Jewish employees, which were targeted during the opposition protests in the campus on the attacks of attacks of Hamas 7 October 2023 Hamas. The Trump Administration is making the largest payment of its kind in about two decades under the title VI of the Civil Rights Act.According to a source quoted by The New York Post, when the government pulled $ 400 million from Columbia in March, it put the Arabs at risk in research and other funding.The deal suggests that the Colombia ends any discrimination on the basis of the race, bringing it to the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision that banned the race-based positive action. This will create new faculty positions with the aim of promoting intellectual diversity and overhalling its approach to discipline, to remove monitoring from the faculty Senate and keep it under the office of the Provost.Settlement also includes strong safety provisions. Colombia should coordinate with NYPD to prevent incidents such as Hamilton Hall’s 2024 occupation and masked protests have been banned with blankets. Disciplinary action has already been taken, dozens of students have been suspended, punished or expelled on recent anti -Israel protests.In the possibility of fueling the debate, the university’s entry offices will now give international applicants more closely, they will need to disclose their reasons to study in the US, data that will be shared with federal authorities. The Colombia will report disciplinary tasks for Visa-holding students under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVIS) and reduce dependence on international enrollment.Several academic departments and international centers, including the Center for Palestine Studies and Middle East Institute, will now come under a close investigation by a newly created senior vice provost role, which aims to ensure ideological balance and comply with federal rules.The schools will also align with the title IX standards by eliminating the policies that allow biological men to compete in women’s game or use women’s features.Most of the $ 400 million in the first frozen federal funding will once be restored after fulfilling all the conditions of the Colombia Agreement. The resolution will be effective for three years, with a compliance monitor to release twice-yearly updates on progress.“The agreement is a significant step ahead after a continuous federal investigation and period of institutional uncertainty,” said the acting president Claire Shipman. “This disposal 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. In significantly, it is, it is a serious status for our freedom, educational excellence and discovery of scholars, work that is important for public interest.”The details leaked from the negotiations suggest that Columbia agreed to release internal entry and to hire data and to avoid further damage to the research fund to accept a fine of $ 200 million. In March, the White House issued nine major demands as a condition for federal support including institutional neutrality and enforcement of educational diversity.The final deal clearly prohibits the use of diversity stories or racial identity statements in applications, in the possibility of sending waves through higher education.The conflict has changed the dramatic leadership in Colombia. President Minusche Shafik stepped in August 2024 amid protests. His interim successor, Katrina Armstrong, was publicly lifted after seven months after supporting the administration’s mask ban, while privately assured the faculty, it would not implement it. He has now been replaced by Shipman, whose previous private messages question the apprehensions of anti-Jews and only to remove a member of the Jewish board and push them to remove a quick appointment of a “Arab” member instead, triggering a Congress investigation.Republican MPs are currently reviewing whether new laws are needed to make the university leadership more accountable, amid growing concerns over anti-Jewishism and conceptual prejudice from the campus.