{"id":1906,"date":"2025-07-24T08:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/columbia-university-to-pay-200m-to-settle-anti-semitism-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:36:40","slug":"columbia-university-to-pay-200m-to-settle-anti-semitism-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/columbia-university-to-pay-200m-to-settle-anti-semitism-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia University to pay $200m to settle anti-Semitism claims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Settlement marks victory in US President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to exert greater control over third-level education.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Columbia University, one of the top educational institutions in the United States, has agreed to pay $221m to settle claims by US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration that it failed to police anti-Semitism on campus.<\/p>\n

Under the agreement announced on Wednesday, Columbia will see the \u201cvast majority\u201d of $400m in federal grants frozen by the Trump administration reinstated, the New York-based university said.<\/p>\n

Columbia will also regain access to billions of dollars in current and future grants under the deal, the university said.<\/p>\n

Columbia said the agreement formalised reforms announced in March to address harassment against Jews, including the hiring of more public safety personnel, changes to disciplinary processes, and efforts to foster \u201can inclusive and respectful learning environment\u201d.<\/p>\n

The agreement also commits Columbia to maintaining merit-based admissions and ending programs that promote \u201cunlawful efforts to achieve race-based outcomes, quotas [and] diversity targets\u201d.<\/p>\n

Under the agreement, Columbia will pay the federal government $200m over three years, in addition to a $21m payment to settle claims by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.<\/p>\n

Claire Shipman, Columbia\u2019s acting president, said that while the settlement was \u201csubstantial\u201d, the university could not continue with a situation that would \u201cjeopardize our status as a world-leading research institution\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, as I have discussed on many occasions with our community, we carefully explored all options open to us,\u201d Shipman said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe might have achieved short-term litigation victories, but not without incurring deeper long-term damage \u2013 the likely loss of future federal funding, the possibility of losing accreditation, and the potential revocation of visa status of thousands of international students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shipman said Columbia did not accept the Trump administration\u2019s findings that it had violated civil rights law by turning a blind eye to the harassment of Jews, but acknowledged the \u201cvery serious and painful challenges our institution has faced with antisemitism\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know there is still more to do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The settlement marks a victory in Trump\u2019s efforts to exert greater control over third-level education, including campus activism in support of Palestine and other causes.<\/p>\n

Trump hailed the settlement as \u201chistoric\u201d in a post on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cNumerous other Higher Education Institutions that have hurt so many, and been so unfair and unjust, and have wrongly spent federal money, much of it from our government, are upcoming,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a student activist group, slammed the settlement as an effective bribe.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine selling your students out just so you can pay Trump $221 million dollars and keep funding genocide,\u201d the group said on X.<\/p>\n

Columbia was among dozens of US universities that were roiled by protests against Israel\u2019s war in Gaza throughout the spring and summer of 2024.<\/p>\n

Many Jewish students and faculty complained that the campus demonstrations veered into anti-Semitism, while pro-Palestinian advocates have accused critics of often wrongly conflating opposition to Israel with the hatred of Jews.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Columbia University\u2019s Judicial Board announced that it had finalised disciplinary proceedings against students who took part in protests at the university\u2019s main library in May and the \u201cRevolt for Rafah\u201d encampment last year.<\/p>\n

CUAD said nearly 80 students had been expelled or suspended for between one and three years for joining the protests, sanctions it argued \u201chugely\u201d exceeded the precedent for non-Palestine-related demonstrations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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