The lawsuit comes weeks after the Trump administration fined the University of California, Los Angeles $1.2 billion and froze research funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus and other civil rights violations. The administration has frozen or paused federal funding over similar allegations against elite private colleges, including Harvard, Brown and Columbia. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched dozens of federal investigations also targeting K-12 school districts. The Trump administration has used its control of federal funding to push for reforms at elite colleges that the president decries as overrun by liberalism and antisemitism. The Trump administration is using its deal with Columbia as a template for other universities, with financial penalties that are now seen as an expectation.