Columbia University, Trump administration and antisemitism
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It’s the “largest religious discrimination harassment settlement” in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's 60 years of existence.
Education Secretary McMahon highlighted Columbia University's new accountability measures and cooperation with the NYPD after the historic $200 million settlement.
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For years, Marianne Hirsch, a prominent genocide scholar at Columbia University, has used Hannah Arendt’s book about the trial of a Nazi war criminal, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,
Columbia University will pay a $200 million settlement to the federal government as part of an agreement to resolve investigations into alleged violations of anti-discrimination laws.
An agreement between Columbia University and the White House this week is an unprecedented intrusion that could erode the independence of universities, observers say
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In its agreement, Columbia will pay $220 million in legal fees to the Trump administration, along with implementing several policy changes regarding speech and student protections on campus. Following this, they will receive $400 million in withheld federal funds.
Columbia win has paved the way for Trump team to elecit hundreds of millions from other top schools, including Cornell, Brown, Duke and Northwestern
Columbia will pay the Trump administration $200 million but get back most of the $400 million in federal funding that was cut amid allegations of antisemitism.