Cornell University. Photo: “Axel Tschentscher”, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cornell University agreed to pay $60 million to the Trump administration to settle federal investigations into antisemitism and release $250 million in frozen funds. It is the fourth Ivy League institution and the fifth university overall to sign a similar agreement.
Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff said the agreement will allow the university to “resume a fruitful relationship with the federal government.” The agreement includes annual payments for three years, campus climate surveys, and new measures to protect Jewish students.
In exchange, the government will close the discrimination investigations. The agreement follows an internal controversy involving Professor Eric Cheyfitz, who was accused of excluding an Israeli student from his course on Gaza and who ultimately resigned from teaching.
Cornell thus joins Columbia, Pennsylvania, Brown, and Virginia in similar agreements. Meanwhile, negotiations continue with Harvard and the California University system, which faces a potential $1 billion payout.
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