Higher Education

University to bend to administration demands but says it currently won’t share records of staff in student-only roles

Talks in Washington. An expert on negotiation. A balancing act. The university chose cooperation over litigation, a strategy both pilloried and praised.

Trump officials hope deals with two Ivy League schools create a template that others, including Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Cornell and Northwestern, will follow.

To fend off illiberalism from the White House, the university’s president also has to confront illiberalism on campus.

President Trump suggested a deal was coming, but officials are still demanding more from the university, in a dispute over billions of research dollars.

The university is trying to avoid the appearance of appeasement, something other powerful institutions that made deals with President Trump found impossible.

Colleges explore temporary placements as White House tightens scrutiny of international applicants