Another goddamn cowardly as shit University bows to trump

[choie]

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Northwestern agreed to pay $75 million to the federal government in a deal reached on Friday with the Trump administration that restores hundreds of millions in research funding and closes multiple investigations into antisemitism on campus.

The deal was the sixth agreement that the Trump administration had reached with an elite university, and the second-highest payment, since the White House began blocking research funding from major colleges that it viewed as out of step with its policy agenda for academia.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the two sides were finalizing their agreement.

Attorney General Pam Bondi hailed the deal as “another victory” for the administration in its pressure campaign, while Henry S. Bienen, Northwestern’s interim president, said the agreement ended “a deeply painful and disruptive period in our university’s history.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/us/politics/northwestern-deal-trump-administration.html

[Permanut]

1. Successful extortion is a victory?

Mkay.

[Silent Type]

2. Disgusting MFer is bullying schools. But looking at research dollars, etc., regained, I can't call them cowards.

But can see why others might.

[SaydiTom]

3. I agree and I'm furious. However....

it seems like the only concession he extracted was the money, and a promise to give anonymized admission statistics. All "cases" against the school dismissed.

Far less than trump demanded, and far less than was extracted from other schools like Columbia (who basically allowed trump to control curriculum, admissions and hiring).

[ColoringFool]

4. Follow The Money. N/T

[DFW]

5. This is a very dark episode in American academic history.

Government indoctrination by intimidation.

WTF business is it whatsoever of the government to interfere with independent academic institutions? What’s next, removal of accreditation if they don’t teach a mandatory history class that teaches how wonderful the Trump era was? Welcome to the United Soviet Socialist States of America.