Breaking down Northwestern University’s $75 million settlement with the Trump administration

Northwestern University has announced an agreement with the Trump administration over a discrimination investigation.

The university will pay $75 million to the federal government, and make commitments to comply with Trump preferences in admissions, hiring, campus protests policies, and trans health care. In exchange, the administration is dropping its investigations against the school and restoring federal funding.

An education reporter and professors specializing in law and government policy share their analysis of the agreement. 

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Bianca Quilantan 
Education Reporter, Politico 

David A. Bateman 
Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University
President of Cornell’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors

Paul Gowder 
Professor of Law, Northwestern University