Northwestern to pay $75M in federal civil-rights deal after antisemitism probes

The Trump medication announced a sweeping national civil-rights statement Friday with Northwestern University, requiring the schoolhouse to wage $75 cardinal and support students and unit from immoderate "race-based admissions practices" and a "hostile acquisition situation directed toward Jewish students."

The Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Education (DOE) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said successful a connection the statement was intended to safeguard Northwestern from "unlawful discrimination" and calls for the assemblage to "maintain wide policies and procedures relating to demonstrations, protests, displays, and different expressive activities," arsenic good arsenic the implementation of mandatory antisemitism training.

"Today’s colony marks different triumph successful the Trump Administration’s combat to guarantee that American acquisition institutions support Jewish students and enactment merit first," Attorney General Pamela Bondi said successful a statement. "Institutions that judge national funds are obligated to travel civilian rights instrumentality — we are grateful to Northwestern for negotiating this historical deal."

Northwestern volition wage its $75 cardinal to the United States done 2028.

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Northwestern University field successful Evanston.  (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

The caller statement comes aft the Trump medication antecedently secured a $221 cardinal colony with Columbia University to resoluteness multiple federal civilian rights investigations. That woody includes a $200 cardinal outgo implicit 3 years for alleged discriminatory practices and $21 cardinal to settee claims of antisemitic employment favoritism against Jewish module aft the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks successful Israel. 

DOE Secretary Linda McMahon called the Northwestern statement "a immense triumph for existent and aboriginal Northwestern students, alumni, faculty, and for the aboriginal of American higher education."

"The woody cements argumentation changes that volition support students and different members of the field from harassment and discrimination, and it recommits the schoolhouse to merit-based hiring and admissions," she said successful a statement. "The reforms bespeak bold enactment astatine Northwestern and they are a roadmap for organization leaders astir the state that volition assistance rebuild nationalist spot successful our colleges and universities."

Northwestern directed Fox News Digital to a connection made by assemblage president Henry Bienen reacting to the agreement, saying it would reconstruct hundreds of millions of dollars successful captious probe funding.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated a "historic deal" with Northwestern University connected Nov. 28. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

"This is not an statement the University enters into lightly, but 1 that was made based connected organization values," Bienen stated. "As an imperative to the dialog of this agreement, we had respective hard reddish lines we refused to cross: We would not relinquish immoderate power implicit whom we hire, whom we admit arsenic students, what our module thatch oregon however our module teach. I would not person signed this statement without provisions ensuring that is the case."

Bienen added, "Northwestern runs Northwestern. Period."

The assemblage president besides said the $75 cardinal outgo "is not an admittance of guilt, but simply a information of the agreement." He noted that Northwestern "has not been recovered successful usurpation of immoderate laws and expressly denies liability regarding each allegations successful the now-closed investigations."

Linda McMahon, U.S. acquisition secretary, called Trump administration's civilian rights statement with Northwestern "a immense triumph for existent and aboriginal Northwestern students, alumni, faculty, and for the aboriginal of American higher education." (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In its connection announcing the agreement, DOJ said national agencies would adjacent their pending investigations and dainty Northwestern arsenic eligible for aboriginal grants, contracts and awards.

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The Trump administration previously enactment a frost connected astir $790 cardinal from Northwestern University and implicit $1 cardinal successful national backing from Cornell University implicit imaginable civilian rights investigations astatine some prestigious schools.