Two high-profile campus standoffs with the federal government remain active and consequential. Northwestern University agreed to a $75 million settlement with the Trump administration to restore roughly $750 million in research funding after a probe into alleged discrimination; the deal also requires specific compliance steps and antisemitism training. At Harvard, negotiations with the administration remain unresolved: university officials have not struck a deal and continue to weigh the tradeoffs between legal exposure and institutional autonomy. Both cases underscore how federal enforcement and settlement terms are reshaping university governance, research funding and campus policies.