(Reuters) -Cornell University said on Friday it had reached a deal with the Trump administration to immediately restore more than $250 million in research funds that were frozen in April.
Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff said in the statement the university would pay the government $30 million over three years to end pending claims.
In April, citing what it called insufficient efforts to curb antisemitism, the administration froze some funding to the university. Washington has agreed to close all of the probes and reviews it launched into whether the university had violated laws, Kotlikoff said.
“The government has further agreed to restore terminated federal grants, release all withheld funds for active grants, and consider Cornell fully eligible for new grants and funding awards, without disadvantage or preference,” he said.
The Trump administration is pressuring top U.S. universities over pro-Palestinian student protests and policies designed to increase diversity that the administration has condemned as discriminatory.
(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya and David Ljunggren; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Rod Nickel)
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