When Northwestern announced its deal with the Trump administration last week to restore nearly $800 million in federal research grants in exchange for a $75 million payout and a list of conditions, Interim President Henry Bienen insisted that the university had “several hard red lines we refused to cross.”

“We would not relinquish any control over whom we hire, whom we admit as students, what our faculty teach or how our faculty teach,” Bienen wrote to the school community.

“Northwestern runs Northwestern. Period,” he added.

But in signing the agreement — which resolves several federal investigations or reviews into allegations of antisemitism on campus, the use of race in admissions policies and its compliance with anti-discrimination laws — the university realigned several policies to

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