When a judge ordered the Trump administration in September to restore Harvard’s federal funding, programs receiving grants through the Education Department’s International and Foreign Language Education initiative breathed a sigh of relief.

Northwestern's $75 million deal with the U.S. government will end a series of investigations and restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding.

Universities across the country are deciding whether to comply with the Trump administration’s funding freeze to crucial research grants, the most recent being Cornell University’s restoration deal effective Nov. 7. Cornell agreed to pay the ...