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| 2025-11-16 |
| Cornell agrees to pay $60M fine, comply with US civil rights law against antisemitism [IsraelTimes] Agreement between school and Trump administration will restore over $250 million in research funding, in the latest deal with a university over handling of campus antisemitism. The university agreed to pay $30 million directly to the US government along with another $30 million toward research that will support US farmers. The six-page agreement is similar to one signed by the University of Virginia last month. It’s shorter and less prescriptive than others signed by Columbia University and Brown University. The agreement is the latest struck between US President Donald Trump’s administration and elite colleges he has accused of tolerating antisemitism and promoting far-left ideas. Trump is still locked in a standoff with Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, and lately has tried an incentive-based approach by offering preferential access to federal funding for other schools that sign onto his political agenda. The agreement requires Cornell to comply with the government’s interpretation of civil rights laws on issues involving antisemitism, racial discrimination and transgender issues. A Justice Department memo that orders colleges to abandon diversity, equity and inclusion programs and transgender-friendly policies will be used as a training resource for Cornell’s faculty and staff. The campus must also provide a wealth of admissions data that the government has separately sought from campuses to ensure race is no longer being considered as a factor in admissions decisions. Trump has suggested some campuses are ignoring a 2023 Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action in admissions. Cornell’s president must personally certify compliance with the agreement each quarter. The deal is effective through the end of 2028. It appears to split the difference on a contentious issue colleges have grappled with as they negotiate an exit from federal scrutiny: payments made directly to the government. Columbia agreed to pay $200 million directly to the government, while Brown University reached an agreement to pay $50 million to state workforce organizations. Virginia’s deal included no payment at all. The agriculture investment will be made over three years, aimed at programs that incorporate artificial intelligence and robotics with the goal of supporting research that reduces costs for US farmers. Founded as a land-grant school, Cornell has longstanding ties with American agriculture. Cops clear pro-Intifada students protesting their Jewish peers: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO Campus Reform obtained exclusive footage of security officers at Louisiana State University removing "Long live the Intifada" chanting protesters after they tried to disrupt an event run by Jewish students. 'BRING POTS AND PANS TO MAKE NOISE! STAND WITH PALESTINE AND SAY NO TERRORISTS ON CAMPUS!' the flyer rallying protestors read. New Jewish studies head at Indiana University squares off with anti-Israel student New head, expert in MidEast antisemitism and the Holocaust refuses to fund PhD student Sabina Ali for conference denying Jewish indigineity in Israel. Idiots scream about free speech. Detractors decry Prof. Günther Jikeli’s booting of a Ph.D student from Zoom over ‘Free Palestine’ image, denial of travel grant, while supporters cautiously wade into academic freedom fight.Jewish legal group tries new line of attack to combat campus antisemitism in US Lawsuit filed by National Jewish Advocacy Center against California’s Chapman University seeks to apply workplace discrimination law to educational contracts Columbia University investment committee rejects demands to divest from Israel The campus coalition of anti-Israel activist groups, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, had repeatedly called on the university to divest its massive endowment from Israel, similar to demands from protesters at other US universities. US law professor sues university for probing his call for global war to ‘end Israel’ University of Kentucky lecturer Ramsi Woodcock argues eliminationist rhetoric is protected speech, in case that serves as counterpoint to Jewish groups’ legal battles. Ramsi Woodcock’s calls to destroy the Jewish state ran afoul of state antisemitism law. Woodcock is a tenured law professor at the university’s J. David Rosenberg College of Law and has worked at the university since 2018. He sued the university president, other university leaders, and US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a federal court in Kentucky. US judge blocks Trump from immediately slashing funding to University of California [IsraelTimes] The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism and other forms of discrimination, a federal judge rules. US District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco grants a preliminary injunction sought by labor unions and other groups representing UC faculty, students and employees. The unions argue in a lawsuit that the administration is using funding cuts, and the threat of cuts, to silence opposing viewpoints at UC in violation of the Constitution and federal law. US President Donald Trump has decried elite colleges as overrun by liberalism and antisemitism. Related: National Jewish Advocacy Center: 2025-11-03 Prominent US Jewish lawyer quits Heritage Foundation’s antisemitism task force after defense of Tucker Carlson National Jewish Advocacy Center: 2025-05-09 US judge says there’s reason to believe US-based media nonprofit aided Hamas National Jewish Advocacy Center: 2025-04-11 AP doubted reliability of Hamas-linked reporter years before Oct. 7, documents show |
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