The administration demanded Columbia make sweeping policies and governance — or lose billions in federal funds.

Columbia University’s board of trustees has been torn over how to respond to President Trump’s escalating demands as the Ivy League school faces a deadline to try to restore $400 million in federal funding that hangs in the balance over campus antisemitism allegations.

The Trump administration has sent a letter to Columbia University’s interim president and board of trustees that includes a list of demands the school must meet if it wants the administration to reverse its cancellation of $400 million in federal funds Columbia was authorized to receive.