Colombia University has agreed to comply with a series of demands from the Trump administration

about how it will handle protests, anti-Semitism, and even some academic departments.

The university faced a deadline today to either comply or risk losing $400 million in federal funding.

Colombia agreed to ban masks that conceal identity, to give

some campus police new power to arrest protesters, review its admission procedures, and to appoint

a senior university official to oversee several academic departments, including those focused on

the Middle East as well as Jewish and Palestinian studies. It's part of a broader

crackdown on higher education. Jeffrey Brown has our latest look. As colleges are under pressure

from the Trump administration, how should they respond? Princeton University President

Christopher L. Icegruber is speaking out publicly and joins the NewsHour now for this exclusive

interview. Thanks so much for joining us. I want to start with news that we're both learning

about right now, I believe, which is that Columbia University seems to have agreed to many of the

demands from the Trump administration in the hope of keeping that $400 million in research.

What's your response?

Let me say, first of all, I have huge respect for Columbia University and tremendous respect

for their president, Dr. Katrina Armstrong. So I don't want to be in the position of second-guessing

a peer institution, particularly under circumstances where I've just learned about the agreement.

What I will say is this.

Academic freedom is a fundamental principle of universities.

It has to be protected.

And so I have concerns if universities make concessions about that.

And I think once you make concessions once, it's hard not to make them again. So that would be a

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