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   https://apnews.com/article/trump-cornell-northwestern-federal-funding-   
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   WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion   
   in federal funding for Cornell University and about $790 million for   
   Northwestern University while the government investigates alleged civil   
   rights violations at the schools, the White House said.   
      
   It’s part of a broader push of using taxpayer dollars to pressure major   
   academic institutions to comply with President Donald Trump’s political   
   agenda and to influence campus policy. The White House on late Tuesday   
   confirmed the hold on the public money but offered no further details on   
   what that meant or what grants were affected.   
      
   The Republican administration previously cut off money to Columbia   
   University, the University of Pennsylvania and others, creating   
   uncertainty for universities at at a time of reduced grants for research   
   institutions.   
      
   Last month, the Education Department sent letters to more than 60   
   universities, including Cornell in New York and Northwestern in Illinois   
   warning of “potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their   
   obligations” under federal law to “protect Jewish students on campus,   
   including uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational   
   opportunities.”   
      
   The administration has argued that universities allowed alleged   
   antisemitism to go unchecked at campus protests last year against the   
   Israel-Hamas war; the schools deny it.   
      
   In a statement, Cornell said that it had received more than 75 stop work   
   orders from the Defense Department related to research “profoundly   
   significant to American national defense, cybersecurity, and health” but   
   that it had not otherwise received any information confirming $1 billion   
   in frozen grants.   
      
      
   “We are actively seeking information from federal officials to learn more   
   about the basis for these decisions,” said the statement from Michael I.   
   Kotlikoff, the university president, and other top school officials.   
      
   Northwestern’s leaders said in a message to campus that they had not   
   received any official notification from Washington.   
      
   The school has fully cooperated with investigations by both the Education   
   Department and Congress, university spokesperson Jon Yates said.   
      
   “Federal funds that Northwestern receives drive innovative and life-saving   
   research, like the recent development by Northwestern researchers of the   
   world’s smallest pacemaker, and research fueling the fight against   
   Alzheimer’s disease,” Yates said. “This type of research is now at   
   jeopardy.”   
      
   The freezes have jeopardized science and research without advancing the   
   goal of creating campuses free of antisemitism, said Ted Mitchell,   
   president of the American Council on Education. ”This was wrong last week,   
   it is wrong this week, and it will be wrong next week,” he said.   
      
   A spokesperson for the Education Department did not respond to a request   
   for comment.   
      
   Officials have already singled out Columbia University, making an example   
   of it by withholding $400 million in federal funds.   
      
   Supporters of Israel and the administration officials have framed the   
   protests at Columbia and other schools as antisemitic and “pro-Hamas,” but   
   people involved in the demonstrations reject that characterization. They   
   say advocating for Palestinian human rights and territorial claims, or   
   criticizing Israeli military action, is not antisemitic.   
      
   As a condition for restoring Columbia’s money, as well as billions more in   
   future grants, the administration demanded major changes in university   
   policy. Columbia agreed to adopt a new definition of antisemitism and   
   expand “intellectual diversity” by staffing up its Institute for Israel   
   and Jewish Studies, among other things.   
      
   The New York school’s acquiescence, in part to salvage ongoing research   
   projects at its labs and medical center, has been criticized by some   
   faculty and free speech groups as capitulating to an intrusion on academic   
   freedom.   
      
   The administration has made similar demands of Harvard University as a   
   condition for receiving almost $9 billion in grants and contracts. It also   
   has paused $510 million in grants and contracts for Brown and dozens of   
   research grants at Princeton.   
      
      
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