Northwestern University agreed to pay $75 million and accept a suite of federal conditions to recover roughly $790 million in research funding that the Trump administration had frozen. The university revoked a prior protest agreement, pledged anti‑antisemitism trainings and agreed to new data and compliance reporting demanded by the Department of Education and other federal agencies. Interim president Henry Bienen framed the settlement as a pragmatic move to avert prolonged litigation and protect labs and research programs. Critics from faculty and civil‑liberties groups called the pact a surrender that risks chilling campus speech and academic autonomy. The deal follows similar settlements at other research universities and raises fresh questions about federal leverage over campus policy, university governance and whether institutions will accept tradeoffs to restore grant access.