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Northwestern University President Resigns After Trump Administration Freezes Research Funds

HeadlineSep 05, 2025
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Northwestern University’s President Michael Schill has announced that he will resign. This comes after the Trump administration froze $790 million in research funding to Northwestern back in April. Schill had testified on Capitol Hill last year about alleged antisemitism on campus and was grilled by Republican lawmakers about negotiating with pro-Palestinian student organizers to end protests on campus. Schill’s resignation came a day after Harvard won a landmark lawsuit challenging the Trump administration for similarly withholding research funds. In Harvard’s case, it was $2.2 billion.

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