(CNN) — The Trump administration has reached a settlement with the University of Virginia, according to an announcement from the Department of Justice, marking the first public university to reach a deal with the White House after months of turmoil.
The university has signed on to Justice Department guidelines on federal funding and discrimination and has agreed to “not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities,” the Wednesday announcement said.
Under the terms of the deal, a Trump administration official told CNN that UVA would not pay any financial settlement, unlike previous agreements reached with schools like Columbia University and Brown University to restore those schools’ federal funding.
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