President Donald Trump’s settlement with Columbia University is pushing higher education leaders to consider that the administration will win its fights against institutions across the country.

University of Michigan as well as Northwestern, Cornell and Brown universities are among dozens targeted by the White House

In March, the Trump administration shocked academia by abruptly canceling hundreds of millions of dollars of federal research grants to Columbia, Harvard, and other elite universities. The administration’s stated reasoning was entirely just: For decades — in a way that became unavoidably visible to many Americans only in the wake of the October 7 Hamas massacre — university administrators have allowed their campuses to become teeming hives of antisemitism,