Columbia University’s $221 million settlement with the Trump administration this week will serve as a model for fines to be levied on other schools being accused of failing to stop campus antisemitism, according to a White House source.

Those fines, including hundreds of millions of dollars eyed from Harvard University, would come as a trade-off for allowing the schools to keep bringing in federal funding, reports The Wall Street Journal on Friday.

Columbia this week agreed to pay $200 million to the federal government over the next three years. Another $21 million will go into a claims fund for the Ivy League school’s Jewish employees who faced discrimination during anti-Israel campus demonstrations after the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

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