00:00Columbia University will pay US$200 million to the Trump administration to settle federal probes and have most of its suspended funding restored.
00:10The announcement comes a day after the university disciplined dozens of students over pro-Palestinian protests.
00:18Under the agreement, the Ivy League school will pay the settlement over three years and an additional $21 million to settle a separate probe brought by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
00:30In return, the government will release part of the $400 million in federal grants that were frozen in March over accusations of anti-Semitism on campus.
00:39Columbia is one of several universities targeted by the Trump administration over protests against Israel's war in Gaza.
00:47Since the funding cut, the university had agreed to a set of demands from the White House.
00:51Last week, the Ivy League school adopted a new definition of anti-Semitism and cut ties with the pro-Palestinian group Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
01:00It also recently punished nearly 80 students for protesting Israel's war in Gaza with expulsions, suspensions and degree revokes.
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