{"id":1548716,"date":"2025-07-24T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1548716"},"modified":"2025-07-24T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:05:00","slug":"columbia-university-agrees-to-pay-us-200-million-to-restore-federal-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/columbia-university-agrees-to-pay-us-200-million-to-restore-federal-funding\/1548716\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia University Agrees to Pay US $200 Million To Restore Federal Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Columbia University Agrees to Pay US $200 Million To Restore Federal Funding<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Columbia University has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve allegations it discriminated against Jewish students, in exchange for the restoration of federal grants worth hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the bribe cash settlement, Columbia University will also implement a series of reforms <a href=\"https:\/\/president.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/03.21.2025%20Columbia%20-%20FINAL.pdf\">announced<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhile Columbia does not admit to wrongdoing with this resolution agreement, the institution\u2019s leaders have recognized, repeatedly, that Jewish students and faculty have experienced painful, unacceptable incidents, and that reform was and is needed,\u201d<\/em> the university said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/president.columbia.edu\/content\/our-resolution-federal-government\">statement<\/a> announcing that it had reached a deal with the federal government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/columbia%20statemenet.jpg?itok=xivY0JqE\"><em>Source<a href=\"https:\/\/president.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/03.21.2025%20Columbia%20-%20FINAL.pdf\">Columbia<\/a><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In March, several government agencies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/press-room\/task-force-cancels-columbia-university-grants.html\">announced<\/a> an initial wave of grant cancellations to the university that totaled around $400 million, the Epoch Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, acting University President Claire Shipman said the agreement \u201cmarks an important step forward after a period of sustained federal scrutiny and institutional uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe settlement was carefully crafted to protect the values that define us and allow our essential research partnership with the federal government to get back on track. Importantly, it safeguards our independence, a critical condition for academic excellence and scholarly exploration, work that is vital to the public interest,\u201d Shipman stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 07\/23\/2025 &#8211; 22:05<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/columbia-university-agrees-pay-us-200-million-restore-federal-funding\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/columbia-university-agrees-pay-us-200-million-restore-federal-funding<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia University Agrees to Pay US $200 Million To Restore Federal Funding Columbia University has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve allegations it discriminated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1548717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1548717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}