US and Columbia reach historic settlement over antisemitism and campus policy reforms Columbia University has agreed to pay over $220 million in a historic settlement with the administration of US President Donald Trump, following allegations of antisemitism and civil rights violations on its campus. The agreement, which restores significant federal funding to the Ivy League…
Columbia University will pay more than $220 million to the federal government under a deal with the Trump administration to restore research funding that had been cancelled amid accusations the university failed to rein in antisemitism on campus. The Ivy League university announced on Wednesday that it will pay $200 million over three years to…
Columbia to recover $400m in US research funds after civil rights dispute settlement Columbia University is nearing a settlement with the Trump administration that may result in the university paying approximately $200 million to resolve civil rights violation claims. The case centres on allegations that Columbia failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, particularly following…
अमेरिका की प्रतिष्ठित कोलंबिया यूनिवर्सिटी ट्रंप प्रशासन के साथ एक बड़ा समझौता करने जा रही है. यूनिवर्सिटी पर यह आरोप है कि उसने यहूदी छात्रों को कैंपस में हो रहे उत्पीड़न से पर्याप्त सुरक्षा नहीं दी. अब इस विवाद को सुलझाने के लिए वह 200 मिलियन डॉलर का मुआवजा देने की तैयारी की जा रही…
US federal agencies warn Harvard may lose accreditation over civil rights violations The Trump administration has intensified its campaign against some of the most prestigious universities in the US by scrutinising their accreditation status, with Harvard University now joining Columbia University under federal investigation. This move marks a significant escalation in the administration’s efforts to…
Columbia University in talks with Trump administration over federal funding freeze. Columbia University students are caught in the middle of a deepening standoff between the university and the Trump administration, as negotiations continue over the potential restoration of nearly $400 million in suspended federal funding. While senior university officials and federal representatives work behind closed…
US President Donald Trump’s fight with elite American universities was only a few days old when federal immigration agents arrested the Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil at his Columbia University apartment building in New York in March. Over the more than three months he was held at a jail for immigrants in rural Louisiana, the…
Masked immigration agents seizing a graduate student on a suburban street. Officers marching into campus housing and arresting another, ignoring his distraught wife as she asks where he is being taken. They have been among the defining images of President Trump’s second term. But with Mahmoud Khalil’s release on bail from federal detention on Friday,…
Indian-American civil rights attorney Anuj Dixit is running for the US House of Representatives in California’s 41st congressional district, aiming to contest Republican incumbent Ken Calvert. Dixit accused Congressman Calvert of not working for the middle-class and said he is contesting “to give them a voice”. Dixit, who was born to immigrant parents from India,…
The US Department of Education has formally notified Columbia University’s accrediting agency that the university is in violation of federal anti-discrimination laws, citing its alleged failure to protect Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests on campus. This alleged violation means Columbia “fails to meet the standards for accreditation,” according to the department. “Columbia University acted with…