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

As Harvard and the government negotiate to end a conflict with billions of dollars on the line, some ask whether Penny Pritzker, the head of the school’s governing board, should step down.

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

DOJ has filed similar challenges in Los Angeles and other states.

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.