The Trump administration’s settlement with Columbia clarifies the stakes for anyone weighing whether to fight its demands or concede.

On Wednesday, Columbia University and the Trump administration announced that they had agreed to a deal to restore federal hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding to the school in exchange for a number of concessions by Columbia,

For Columbia, the cost of mollifying Trump was steep. Claire Shipman, the university's president, agreed the school would pay a $200 million fine to resolve funding disputes, plus an additional $21 million designated for university employees who said they'd faced discrimination or harm amid campus protests related to the Israel-Hamas war.