Trump, Columbia and Harvard
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Last week, Trump said the Ivy League school “wants to settle” after seeing Columbia’s funding restored in exchange for paying a $200 million fine to settle civil rights
It’s unclear whether Harvard will follow suit with its own agreement anytime soon — or that the measures Columbia agreed to are ones Harvard is willing to undertake.
Columbia settled with the Trump administration for over $220 million. Harvard is reportedly open to paying twice as much.
Harvard University is open to paying up to half a billion dollars to end its feud with the Trump administration, The New York Times reported Monday.
The sum sought by the government is more than twice as much as the $200 million fine that Columbia University said it would pay when it settled its clash with the White House last week.
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The White House is pursuing heavy fines from Harvard and other universities as part of potential settlements to end investigations into campus antisemitism, according to an administration official familiar with the matter.
Trump claimed that Harvard University violated federal civil rights law in its handling of Jewish and Israeli students and threatened the school of potentially losing all federal financial resources as a result.
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Straight Arrow News on MSNColumbia's $200 million fine may be first of many for elite universitiesThe $200 million fine that Columbia University agreed to pay the Trump administration may be only the beginning. The administration is reportedly seeking steep payments from other elite schools that would allow them to continue receiving federal funding.