Cornell agrees to pay $60 million in agreement with Trump administration

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

November 7, 2025 at 12:38 p.m. EST


Cornell University agreed to pay $30 million to the federal government and invest an additional $30 million in research on farming, in a deal with the Trump administration that closes federal investigations and restores the university’s research funding.

The agreement “explicitly recognizes Cornell’s right to independently establish our policies and procedures, choose whom to hire and admit, and determine what we teach, without intrusive government monitoring or approvals,” the university’s president, Michael I. Kotlikoff, said in a message to the campus community Friday.

But it does require the university to report information to the federal government, such as anonymized admissions data and climate surveys. The university was not found in violation of Title VI of federal civil rights law in any of the investigations and compliance reviews launched by federal agencies this year, Kotlikoff wrote.

The agreement will restore all the federal research funding that has been frozen at the school for months, and the school is eligible for future funding.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/11/07/cornell-university-deal-trump/

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More ransom payments to the hostage-takers.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Why would alumni ever donate...

If they’re just going to hand it over to Trump?

[orangecrush]

10. Really

[ECL213]

2. So, they get to pay $30M to do what they were doing before Donnie Dickhead came along.

"The agreement “explicitly recognizes Cornell’s right to independently establish our policies and procedures, choose whom to hire and admit, and determine what we teach, without intrusive government monitoring or approvals,” the university’s president, Michael I. Kotlikoff, said in a message to the campus community Friday."

The way everyone caves to this douchebag disgusts me.

[GreenWave]

18. Exactamundo.

[Paladin]

3. This kind of lame-ass crap needs to stop, immediately.

The last thing we need to be doing is forking over more extortion cash to trump---particularly in light of how things have been going for him in the last few days.

[calimary]

19. Totally.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Shakedown

They got something out of this deal?

[AZJonnie]

7. Their federal funding was restored, so yes?

Still a total f****** shakedown

[Ray Bruns]

5. Total fucking extortion!

[Buddyzbuddy]

6. "What do I know about running a restaurant?"

"But if you think making me a partner will help you out, then ok" -Paulie "Good Fellas"
Just before they bankrupted the business and torched it for the insurance.

The point is, they are the mob and they'll be back for more. Cornell is now another patsy.

[Bengus81]

8. $30M going to the Fed Government? My ass..........

[RussBLib]

16. they better be keeping track of all these millions sloshing around

Yah? Who am I kidding?

[Efilroft Sul]

9. Keith Olbermann is probably firing up a special Friday edition of Countdown to torch his alma mater.

And I can't blame him. Ivy League cowards.

[Marie Marie]

11. Yes and Bill Mahr might applaud it. He always thought that he was "above" his Alma Mater,

probably because he was very unpopular with his fellow students.

[Efilroft Sul]

13. Unpopular even then, huh? Didn't know that. Only know what Keith O. has said about him.

[Cha]

12. WTF are they Doing with All that Extortion

Money Paying #FuckICE & "ballroom"?

Shite.

[NotHardly]

14. Why would anyone go to a University that "bends the knee" to Hitler 2.0?

F*cking cowards, lowlife scum, ... their degrees will not be worth the paper they are printed on.

[mdbl]

15. More extortion by the Dump administration.

[moniss]

17. College of the Gutless should be the new

marketing blurb.

[rickford66]

20. They should have given scholarships with all that dough.

Most of the brightest low income people will never get a chance. Now the money will be spent on the dictator's whims.