Columbia University, seen in June 2025, is one of the schools that made a deal with the Trump administration last year in order to avoid losing funding.

(EAST LANSING, MICH.) Several prominent universities, including Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, made headlines in 2025 in a dizzying back-and-forth with the federal government. The Trump administration cut large amounts of research funding to universities. Some pushed back, and others hatched settlements to get the money restored.

So how have these confrontations between higher education and the White House played out over the past year, now that they have dropped out of the spotlight?

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