Northwestern University President Michael Schill announced Thursday that he will resign, concluding a three-year tenure marked by five months of an unprecedented $790 million federal funding freeze.

The school never received formal notification of the abrupt pause, which came amid several federal investigations into allegations of antisemitism. The move rattled students and faculty, and left Schill at the helm of a bitter fight between the Trump administration and elite universities across the U.S.

Northwestern, along with Schill, had already been subject to an onslaught of conservative criticism. Last spring, he was grilled for hours before a Republican-led congressional committee on the campus environment for Jewish students.

But those pressures have only mounted under President Donal

See Full Page