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Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/07/us/columbia-university-grants-canceled-trump/index.html
Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants and Contracts with Columbia University over Antisemitism
(AP-CNN) The Trump administration said Friday that it's canceling $400 million in grants and contracts with Columbia University because of the school's failure to squelch antisemitism on campus. "Universities must comply with all federal antidiscrimination laws if they are going to receive federal funding. For too long, Columbia has abandoned that obligation to Jewish students studying on its campus," said Education Secretary Linda McMahon. Columbia vowed to work with the government to try to get the money back. Columbia/Barnard Hillel Executive Director Brian Cohen said he hoped it would be "a wake-up call to Columbia's administration and trustees to take antisemitism and the harassment of Jewish students and faculty seriously." Other colleges that have come under new federal antisemitism investigations include the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Minnesota; Northwestern University; and Portland State University.