In March, the Trump administration eliminated $400 million in federal funding for Columbia University and threatened to take away more if the institution didn’t do more to combat antisemitism. Columbia conceded and amended policies that included an overhaul of student protest privileges and a review of the school’s Middle East studies department.

The Ivy League school said it could not substantiate the planned cuts widely reported by national news outlets.

The Trump administration’s threat is tied to curbing anti-Semetism on campus, but Jewish students call the cuts counterproductive. “I feel safer in spaces of academic engagement and open dialogue, not censorship and fear,