EXCLUSIVE: Columbia To Meet With Trump Administration To Finalize Deal as Left-Leaning Committee Searches for New University President

Columbia University leaders are set to meet with a senior Trump administration official on Thursday to finalize the terms of a deal that would restore the vast majority of the school’s federal funding and resolve the civil rights complaints against the school.

The draft deal, which sources stressed is subject to change until President Donald Trump signs off on it, will see Columbia pay a $200 million fine and commit to releasing admissions and hiring data that federal officials say will ensure the university is complying with the Supreme Court’s prohibition on affirmative action. And as of Wednesday evening, the situation remained fluid, with people on both sides lobbying for changes in the final agreement. 

At the same time, the current deal is a far cry from a set of more burdensome demands the administration itself made in early April, when it sent Columbia administrators a letter outlining a dozen demands it said the school needed to meet in order for the federal government to restore the $400 million in grants and contracts that had been slashed the previous month.

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