Northwestern University agreed to pay $75 million over three years and accept several policy changes to regain access to roughly $790 million in federal research funds, closing three agency probes and ending an investigation tied to alleged antisemitism. Interim President Henry Bienen framed the settlement as necessary to preserve labs and faculty, saying self-funding had cost the university roughly $40 million per month. The pact requires new admissions data reporting, curbs on diversity statements in hiring, and other compliance commitments; critics called the terms coerced and raised First Amendment and academic-freedom concerns. Northwestern is now the sixth university to reach a restoration deal with the Trump administration, while other institutions have pursued litigation instead. A separate federal tracker compiled by media outlets maps which campuses have had funds frozen, how much was at stake, and the variety of resolutions—deals, litigation, or ongoing freezes. For research-intensive universities, these settlements create a blueprint for regaining agency dollars but also a precedent for conditional federal oversight of campus policies and governance.