The Trump administration has frozen over $1 billion in funding for Cornell University and $790 million for Northwestern University while it investigates both schools over civil rights violations. The funding being paused includes mostly grants and contracts with the federal departments of health, education, agriculture, and defense. Last month, the administration sent a letter to 60 universities, including Cornell and Northwestern, that it could bring enforcement actions if a review determined the schools had failed to stop what it called antisemitism. Human rights advocates have raised free speech and academic freedom concerns over the crackdown by the Trump administration.