Overview
- President Trump’s administration froze Harvard’s access to more than $2 billion in federal grants and threatened to bar its international students over alleged antisemitism and DEI violations.
- On July 23, Columbia agreed to pay $221 million to lift a $400 million funding freeze, setting a blueprint that includes policy concessions and an independent monitor.
- Brown reached a $50 million deal on July 30, pledging payments to local workforce organizations without fines to the federal government and securing the reinstatement of $510 million and the closure of investigations.
- Harvard negotiators remain hesitant to make a direct payment to the Treasury and view any requirement for an outside monitor as a potential infringement on academic autonomy.
- A settlement with Harvard could conclude its April lawsuit and require campus policy changes on antisemitism, nondiscrimination, gender definitions and admissions data access under White House terms.