While some professors rallied to criticize the changes, federal officials called the university’s actions a “positive first step” in maintaining a financial relationship.

Labor unions representing professors and other educators have sued the Trump administration over its revocation of $400 million in congressionally authorized federal research funding to Columbia University following campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war,

Dozens of faculty members protested on Monday against what they see as Columbia’s capitulation to the federal government’s demands.

International students and faculty have watched the growing crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University with apprehension.