Cornell University has reached an agreement with the Trump administration to restore $60 million in funding, NBC reported.
According to NBC, the university announced on November 7 that it had reached an agreement with the White House to restore funding that the government had cut off earlier this year.
As part of the deal, Cornell will pay the federal government $30 million over three years “as a condition of ending the lawsuits against it“ and will invest another $30 million in “research aimed at strengthening U.S. agriculture,” the network reported. network.
In April, the Trump administration accused the university of civil rights violations and withheld approximately $250 million in research funding.
“President Trump has delivered another big victory for American students by striking a deal with Cornell University,“ White House Deputy Press Secretary Liz Houston said in an email about the deal, according to NBC.
In mid-March, the U.S. Department of Education warned 60 American universities of consequences if they failed to protect Jewish students from protests. Those notices included six of the eight Ivy League universities: Brown, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and Princeton.