Columbia University to pay $ 200 million to settle anti -Semitic complaints | Education news

The settlement marks the victory in the efforts of American president Donald Trump to exercise greater control over education in the third level.

The University of Columbia, one of the best educational establishments in the United States, agreed to pay $ 221 million to settle complaints from US President Donald Trump’s administration that she had not polished anti-Semitism on the campus.

Under the agreement announced on Wednesday, Columbia will see the “vast majority” of $ 400 million in federal subsidies frozen by the reintegrated Trump administration, said the New York -based university.

Columbia will also resume access to billions of dollars in current and future subsidies under the agreement, the university said.

Columbia said the agreement has formalized reforms announced in March to combat harassment against Jews, including hiring more public security personnel, changes in disciplinary processes and efforts to promote “an inclusive and respectful learning environment”.

The agreement also undertakes Columbia to maintain admissions based on merit and end programs which promote “illegal efforts to achieve results based on race, quotas (and) diversity objectives”.

Under the agreement, Columbia will pay $ 200 million in the federal government over three years, in addition to a payment of $ 21 million to settle complaints by the equal employment committee.

Claire Shipman, an acting president of Columbia, said that even if the regulations were “substantial”, the university could not continue a situation which “would compromise our status as an institution of world renown research”.

“In addition, as I have discussed several times with our community, we have carefully explored all the options open to us,” Shipman said in a statement.

“We may have won short -term dispute victories, but not without undergoing long -term damage – the probable loss of the future federal funding, the possibility of losing the accreditation and the potential revocation of the visa status of thousands of international students.”

Shipman said Columbia had not accepted the conclusions of the Trump administration according to which she had violated the civil rights law by looking at the harassment of the Jews, but recognized the “very serious and painful challenges that our institution has confronted with anti -Semitism”.

“We know there is even more to do,” she said.

The rules mark a victory in Trump’s efforts to exercise greater control over education in the third level, including campus activism in support of Palestine and other causes.

Trump praised the regulations as “historic” in an article on his social platform Truth.

“Many other higher education establishments that have injured so many people, and so unfair and unfair, and have wrongly spent federal money, largely from our government, are to come,” wrote Trump.

Columbia University Apartheid DEFFISED (CUAD), a group of student activists, criticized the regulations as an effective bridge pot.

“Imagine selling your students just to pay $ 221 million Trump and continue to finance the genocide,” said the group on X.

Columbia was one of the dozens of American universities that were rolled by demonstrations against the War of Israel in Gaza throughout spring and summer 2024.

Many Jewish students and teachers complained that campus demonstrations took place in anti-Semitism, while pro-Palestinian defenders accused criticism of often confusing opposition to Israel with the hatred of the Jews.

On Tuesday, the judicial council of the University of Columbia announced that it had finalized disciplinary procedures against students who participated in demonstrations at the main library of the university in May and in the “revolt for Rafah” last year.

Cuad said that nearly 80 students had been expelled or suspended between one and three years old for joining the demonstrations, sanctions which, according to them, “exceeded the previous one for demonstrations not linked to the Palestine.