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Trump Administration Lays Out Demands to Columbia to Restore Federal Funding

Columbia University agreed to the Trump Administration's demands to address anti-Semitism to secure $400 million in federal funding after facing a deadline for compliance.
Columbia University agreed to demands from the Trump Administration to address alleged anti-Semitism, risking its federal funding of $400 million.
Columbia's interim president, Katrina Armstrong, stated that these policy changes are essential for the university's mission and student safety.

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The Latest on Columbia University; NPR and PBS in the Hot Seat; Elie Mystal's List of Laws that Need to Go | The Brian Lehrer Show

Loading... Coming up on today's show: Columbia University agreed to the Trump administration's demands in order to restore $400 million dollars in federal funds, leading some faculty members to protest, and take legal action. David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic and an author of The Atlantic daily newsletter, plus author of the forthcoming book The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2025), repor…

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Commentary: Columbia University's capitulation to Trump puts academic freedom at risk coast-to-coast

After Trump threatened Columbia University with the loss of $400 million in federal funding, the university folded. But Trump's threat was almost surely illegal.

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A Reckoning for Higher Ed

A sense of fear is rippling through higher education—the fear that the Trump Administration will hold it accountable for violating federal law. As President Trump withholds millions in grants to Ivy League institutions, The New York Times’s Thomas Edsall innocently asks, “The American university system commands worldwide respect. What would prompt a call for its abolition?” Like so many institutions, the American university system used to enjoy …

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THOMAS: Why are top universities getting federal money?

Columbia University at first appeared to have surrendered to President Trump’s demands that the New York school stop coddling anti-Semitic and anti-Israel demonstrators. The school announced it was buckling, not on principle, but because it wants the $400 million in federal grants and contracts restored. Trump had frozen the money to get them to act against protesters. Now the protesters are protesting what Columbia’s president did to have the g…

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Salt Lake Tribune

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$15 billion is enough to fight a president

President Trump has declared that this country’s leading universities are sites of “anti-American insanity.” He has tried to cut their funding for scientific research. His administration has announced investigations into diversity programs and floated new taxes on university endowments. Brown and Columbia have had faculty or former students detained and threatened with deportation. On Thursday, the administration suspended $175 million of fundin…

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