Cornell Reaches $60 Million Deal With Federal Government to Restore Federal Research Funding

The Ivy League Institution will pay a $30 million fine but admits no wrongdoing.
Cornell Reaches $60 Million Deal With Federal Government to Restore Federal Research Funding
An entrance sign to Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Sept. 1, 2019. Amy Lutz/Shutterstock
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Cornell University has settled with the federal government to preserve hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding that was previously at risk following civil rights investigations on the campus, the school’s president said today.

Under the agreement, Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff said the university will pay a $30 million fine to the federal government to end pending civil rights claims, though the institution is not admitting to any wrongdoing.

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Aaron Gifford has written for several daily newspapers, magazines, and specialty publications and also served as a federal background investigator and Medicare fraud analyst. He graduated from the University at Buffalo and is based in Upstate New York.