Trump hopes Harvard will pay far more than $200 million Columbia has settled, sources say
The Trump administration is seeking a deal with Harvard University, which demands Ivy League schools pay far more $200 million fine According to two people familiar with the issue, Columbia University has agreed to resolve multiple federal investigations.
Harvard would be expected to pay hundreds of millions of dollars as part of a settlement to end anti-Semitism investigations on campus, people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations said. Harvard leaders are negotiating with the White House even when they are The fight in court Reclaims access to billions of federal research funds that have been terminated by the Trump administration.
The White House desire to make Harvard pay far more than Columbia was first reported by the New York Times.
Harvard did not immediately comment.
The Trump administration plans to use deals with Columbia Templates for other universitiesthere are financial penalties that are now considered a staple of future agreements. Last week, Columbia’s leader agreed to pay $200 million as part of the settlement to resolve an investigation into alleged violations of the federal government’s anti-discrimination laws and restore more than $400 million in research grants.
Colombia had been meeting for months after the Trump administration accused the university of allowing the university to harass Jewish students and employees amid a wave of campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war. Harvard faces similar charges, but unlike Columbia, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, schools challenged the administration’s funding cuts and subsequent sanctions in court.
Last week, the president Donald Trump Harvard said he wanted to “settle down,” but he said Columbia “handled it well.”
The Trump administration’s emphasis on financial penalties adds a new dimension to universities facing federal scrutiny. In the past, civil rights investigations by the education sector almost always ended with voluntary agreements and rarely included fines.
Even when the government imposed fines, they were just a small percentage of what Trump wanted. Last year, Education Department Fine Liberty University $14 million after Christian School discovered that it had not disclosed the crime on campus. Most often, the government has fined universities under the Clergy Act. $4.5 million fine In 2019, we addressed Michigan State University regarding handling sexual assault complaints against dishonest sports doctors. Larry Nasser.
The University of Pennsylvania agreed this month Change school records Set by transgender swimmers Leah ThomasHowever, the school’s deal with the Trump administration did not include a fine.
The Trump administration has launched an investigation at dozens of universities into allegations of anti-Semitism or racism in the form of diversity, equity and inclusion policies. Funding for several faces resembling Harvard people has been frozen, including more than $1 billion at Cornell University and more than $790 million at Northwestern University.
Last week, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon When called Columbia, it is called the “roadmap” of other universities, and it says it will “spread across the higher education sector and change courses in campus culture for years to come.”
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