The Trump administration warned 60 colleges and universities last month that they were under investigation for antisemitic harassment and discrimination. Northwestern and Cornell were on the list and both occupied positions of prominence in the wave of pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus amid the Israel-Hamas war.

The Trump administration has frozen funding for Cornell and Northwestern universities while it investigates both schools over civil rights violations, a U.S. official said.

The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and about $790 million for Northwestern University while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at the schools,