WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s milestone settlement with Columbia promises to bring stability to a university in crisis. It also delivers a crucial win to President Donald Trump in his campaign to reshape higher education.

Columbia University will pay over $220m (£162m) to the US government after allegedly violating Jewish student’s civil rights, it announced on Wednesday.

Federal officials pressuring Harvard University over allegations of mishandling antisemitism on campus considered an unprecedented tactic to force compliance: placing a lien on school property.

The university is also committing not to meet with its most prominent pro-Palestinian group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, nor any affiliated groups,

Hearings in cases over Trump's efforts to deport protesters and pull Harvard's federal funding were both held in a Boston courthouse on July 21.

The US says the UN's culture and education body is promoting "divisive social and cultural causes" - a claim the agency denies.

Lawyers for Harvard and the Trump administration pressed their cases in a Boston courtroom over the government's move to cut nearly $3 billion in federal aid to the university.

T o do the same thing over and over and expect a different result is one definition of insanity. According to Robert Shibley, a special counsel of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), it’s also Columbia University’s approach to addressing anti-Semitism on campus.