Columbia University to pay $200 million fine in new agreement with Trump administration
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
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Columbia University has struck another deal with the Trump administration.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Thursday, July 24th, 2025. This is USA Today's The Excer. |
| 0:14.4 | Today, breaking down Columbia's latest deal with the Trump administration, plus what tech executives are doing in the Army, and how a potential |
| 0:21.3 | map redraw in Texas could kick off a coast-to-coastricting battle. |
| 0:28.3 | Columbia University has struck another deal with the Trump administration. |
| 0:31.5 | The Ivy League School in New York City announced it will pay a massive $200 million fine over |
| 0:36.0 | three years. |
| 0:37.0 | To the government, to settle allegations, |
| 0:38.7 | it violated federal civil rights laws and failed to protect members of its Jewish community |
| 0:42.9 | from discrimination. It will also jointly appoint an independent monitor to update the federal |
| 0:47.4 | government on its compliance with new policies and pay an additional $21 million fine to the U.S. |
| 0:52.7 | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. |
| 0:54.9 | The agreement marks the second major concession from the university and its negotiations with the government. |
| 0:59.6 | The school previously agreed, among other things, to bolster campus law enforcement, |
| 1:03.7 | appoint a new administrator to oversee its Middle Eastern Studies Department |
| 1:06.5 | and retool its protest policies in an effort to play ball with the White House. |
| 1:10.8 | The announcement also comes after the Trump administration pushed the University of Pennsylvania, and retool its protest policies in an effort to play ball with the White House. |
| 1:14.8 | The announcement also comes after the Trump administration pushed the University of Pennsylvania, |
| 1:19.7 | another Ivy League school, to agree to a series of demands related to preventing transgender athletes from competing. Similarly, that deal was reached to restore massive amounts of federal |
| 1:25.1 | money. |
| 1:33.5 | A federal judge in Florida yesterday rejected a bid from President Trump's Justice Department to unseal grand jury testimony tied to a two decades old investigation into convicted |
| 1:38.4 | sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Justice Department asked the federal court in the Southern |
| 1:42.7 | District of Florida to release transcripts from grand jury investigations that took place in West Palm Beach in 2005 and 2007. |
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