The University of Columbia announced Wednesday that it agrees to pay a fine of 200 million dollars to close the accusations that Donald Trump’s administration poured against her of course anti -Semitism.
As indicated by the University Center in a statement sent to US media, that payment is part of an agreement that will allow him to recover the subsidies and contracts that the Executive had canceled claiming “his passivity to the persistent harassment of Jewish students.”
The interim president of Columbia, Claire Shipman, said that this resolution “is an important advance after a period of constant federal scrutiny and institutional uncertainty.”
“The agreement was carefully prepared to protect the values that define us and allow our important investigation collaboration with the federal government to be reactivated,” he said in statements collected by The New York Times.
Anti -Semitism allegations began to appear in Columbia and other US campuses shortly after October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a terrorist attack against Israel.
The war declared later by Israel against the Palestinian Islamist group gave rise to antiisraeli manifestations as they have not seen in universities for half a century, with Columbia at the spearhead.
The agreement resolves more than half a dozen open investigations on civil rights at that university and according to The New York Times will be supervised by an independent monitor agreed by both parties, who will inform the Government about its progress every six months.
Columbia will also pay 21 million dollars to resolve the investigations initiated by the Commission for Equal Opportunities in the use of the United States.
According to Shipman, the agreement restores the vast majority of the 400 million dollars in federal funds for research that were suspended by the administration in spring, and restores the collaboration of the university with the federal government.
“It is important to note that the agreement preserves the autonomy and authority of Columbia in the hiring of teachers, admissions and academic decision making,” added the interim president.
When the Trump government withdrew 400 million dollars of funds in March, the General Administrative Services said that Columbia had then committed 5,000 million federal and that this cancellation was only “the first batch of shares.”
Shipman clarified that the pact achieved gives “access to the vast majority” of those 400 million, while “preserving the autonomy and authority of Columbia in the hiring of teachers, admissions and academic decision making.”
The New York Times stressed that the university has pledged to comply with the laws that prohibit the consideration of the breed in admissions and hiring, and to respect other commitments to reduce anti -Semitism and disturbances in the campus that agreed in March.
The New York newspaper stressed that Columbia is the first university to reach a negotiated agreement on accusations of anti -Semitism. Harvard, who brought to court the cuts suffered, is also negotiating the restitution of his funds.
