WASHINGTON (AP) — Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy League school.
Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff announced the agreement on Friday, saying it upholds the university’s academic freedom while restoring more than $250 million in research funding that the government withheld amid investigations into alleged civil rights violations. He said the government’s funding freeze had stalled research, upended careers and threatened the future of academic programs.
The university agreed to pay $30 million directly to the U.S. government along with another $30 million toward research that will support U.S. farmers.
The agreement is the latest struck between 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.
Kotlikoff said the agreement revives the campus’ partnership with the federal government “while affirming the university’s commitment to the principles of academic freedom, independence, and institutional autonomy that, from our founding, have been integral to our excellence.”
It 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.
Nothing scares rich people like losing money. What a bunch of whiny little titty babies. None of them deserve what they have.
It’s a protection racket
Glad I dropped out.
imagine having this place on your resume/cv.
Whelp guess I’ll never hire one of their graduates
So what?
So they have enough money to fund their research without bending the knee to a narcissistic autocrat
No? That only contributes like 13% of their revenue? Do you know what an endowment is?
Yes. Do you? Back in 2020 Duke and Stanford both issued hundreds of millions of dollars in bonds against their endowments. There’s no reason Cornell couldn’t do the same while we wait out this fauxticratic administration
No reason. I’m sure the administration has thought of it. But sure - some rando on lemmy who oversimplifies the situation knows better I’m sure.
And tell me - what does the endowment have to do with them issuing bonds? They could do that without an endowment.
So it looks like you don’t know how bonds work.
Cornell caved to fascists at the slightest whiff of dollars.
Cowards
Collaborators
Crustaceans
Crinklecut fries
Corrugated cylinder of cardboard
Professor V.J. Cornucopia’s Fantastic Foodmagorium and Great American Steakery
1/9 is careless c construction. Consolidate, center yourself, comment again.
Ah yes Cornell with an endowment size of $11.8b needs all the federal funding…how ever would they survive without it.
This will free up almost 2% of that!! While murdering their souls.
Win-win.
The endowment provides only 13% of their revenue.
You do know that a $10 billion endowment doesn’t mean they get $10 billion a year right? … right?
You see? They had to capitulate to fascism. Sorry non-white and trans people. It was just business.
Principles don’t pay employees.
So true.
lol hes gonna pull the funding again next time a brown person from cornell breathes anyway, these idiots
Stop appeasing Nazis.
Capitulating to and collaborating with fascists.
Don’t let them memory hole this.
Wow I almost went there.
Harvard > Cornell is now a verifiable fact.
Why do these extremely expensive schools get federal funding again?
