The Trump administration’s settlement with Columbia clarifies the stakes for anyone weighing whether to fight its demands or concede.

The White House is pursuing heavy fines from Harvard and other universities as part of potential settlements to end investigations into campus antisemitism, according to an administration official familiar with the matter.

Trump, who has halted billions in research grants to a slew of schools, has said he envisions the Columbia deal as the first of many such agreements. His education secretary, Linda McMahon, called it a blueprint for other institutions to follow.

Donald Trump is no stranger to lawsuits. In fact, he was involved in more than 4,000 of them before winning the White House in 2016. Since then, Trump has made headlines mostly as a defendant — that is,

Columbia win has paved the way for Trump team to elecit hundreds of millions from other top schools, including Cornell, Brown, Duke and Northwestern

Columbia University’s settlement with the Trump administration is making waves across higher education as the White House indicates it wants the agreement to be a roadmap for other colleges. Advocates are angry at Columbia’s cooperation while President Trump’s supporters cheer what they consider much needed reforms after the school agreed to pay a

The latest: Today, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) requested the Trump administration give a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein case files. More: Schumer criticized the administration’s lack of transparency, and pointed to a Wall Street Journal report that Justice officials told Trump his name was in the files.