Harvard secured a major victory for itself and the higher education community this week when a judge ordered the Trump administration to release $2.2 billion in frozen funds to the nation’s oldest and richest university.

The win comes at a pivotal time as multiple other colleges are in talks with the Trump administration to strike deals to restore funding and end federal investigations against their institutions.

It is unclear if the judge's decision will end Harvard's own negotiations with Team Trump, but, if not, it will likely give the school the upper hand after the administration previously sought for the university to pay $500 million in a potential deal to both restore the funding and close down the federal probes.

"I think this really upends the negotiations that have been ongoi

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