Another top American university has folded to the Trump administration over its racial discrimination.
Northwestern University, a private research university in Illinois that has one of the country’s most impressive alumni lists, will pay $75 million in damages to the U.S. government and eliminate
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a press release:
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reached an agreement with Northwestern University (Northwestern) to safeguard its students, employees, and faculty from unlawful discrimination based on race, religion, sex, or national origin, including race-based admissions practices and a hostile educational environment directed toward Jewish students.
As part of the agreement, Northwestern University will pay $75 million to the United States through 2028. Northwestern agrees to adhere to federal anti-discrimination laws, ensuring that the university does not preference individuals based on race, color, or national origin in admissions, scholarships, hiring, or promotion.
Northwestern shall maintain clear policies and procedures relating to demonstrations, protests, displays, and other expressive activities, as well as implement mandatory antisemitism training for all students, faculty, and staff.
Northwestern’s President and Chair of the Board of Trustees shall each certify under penalty of perjury each quarter the university’s full compliance with the agreement. The United States shall close pending investigations and treat Northwestern as eligible for future grants, contracts, and awards.
Assistant Attorney General Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, said the government was grateful about the “significant improvements Northwestern has made and are gratified to reach an agreement that safeguards of rights of all the university’s applicants, students, and employees.”
Northwestern, meanwhile, said the agreement would allow the university “resume drawing down funds for existing and approved grants; and ensures our researchers remain eligible for future grants.”
They said in a statement:
It also ends a deeply painful and disruptive period in our university’s history.
By reaching this agreement, we preserved Northwestern’s unique environment for research that advances human understanding, improves lives in myriad ways and makes us one of the world’s great universities.
I am grateful to our Board of Trustees for recognizing the need to maintain vitally important research activities and making bold decisions to finance those activities since April.
At a cost of tens of millions a month, however, that funding was far from a sustainable solution.
We expect federal funds to resume flowing within days and be fully restored within 30 days.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below: pic.twitter.com/kBRyQssOKH
— Matthew Eadie (@mattheweadie22) November 29, 2025
Since taking back the White House in January, the administration has made a crackdown on the progressive poison promoted by universities one of its key priorities.
Dozens of universities have already settled lawsuits with the Trump administration, including other elite instutitions such as Columbia University, Brown University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
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