Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million to settle a row with the Trump administration that will see the restoration of $250 million of federal funding to the US Ivy League school, it said Friday.

Cornell was one of several elite universities against which President Donald Trump led a charge after returning to the White House, accusing them of being bastions of liberal bias and harboring antisemites.

As a result of Trump’s crackdown, Cornell said it was subjected to stop-work orders, grant terminations and funding freezes with the total value of the interruptions put at $250 million.

The Trump administration launched civil rights probes against Cornell and dozens of universities alleging they allowed Jewish and Israeli students to face discrimination during campus protests again

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