Overview
- Cornell will regain more than $250 million in federal research support as the government restores terminated grants, releases withheld funds, and closes pending civil-rights investigations.
- The university will pay $30 million to the federal government over three years and invest another $30 million in research programs intended to strengthen U.S. agriculture.
- Cornell must provide anonymized undergraduate admissions data through 2028 for federal audit and continue annual campus climate surveys that include the experience of students with shared Jewish ancestry.
- The agreement incorporates Justice Department guidance as a training resource for faculty and staff, requires periodic presidential certification of compliance, and runs through the end of 2028.
- Cornell denies any wrongdoing, faces no independent monitor under the deal, and becomes the latest elite university to settle after funding freezes tied to the administration’s civil-rights enforcement push.