What do you know? The White House has managed to get Columbia University to ‘fess up to its sorry record of antisemitism, pay a considerable fine and agree to fresh steps to set it on the right path.

That’s enormously encouraging — not least because it’ll put pressure on other schools that have been resisting changes, like Harvard, to fall in line.

President Donald Trump and his team worked hard to reach a deal and deserve great credit. They put the screws to the elite school, cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in grant support until it agreed to reforms. 

Now Columbia will pay a whopping $200 million to settle discrimination claims and another $20 million specifically to address antisemitism on campus. It also promised to stop racial discrimination in hiring and admissions. 

Plus, the school has agreed to vet international students more closely and share its data with the feds.

That means it won’t let in more terror-aligned foreign “students” like Mahmoud Khalil whose real purpose is to sow chaos on American campuses. 

And just a day earlier, Columbia meted out heavy punishments against more than 70 students for their antisemitic antics, suspending some and expelling others. 

These are all huge wins. Recall that the school had allowed a mob, including “community activists” with no university affiliation, to occupy its main square with tents for weeks on end.  

This rabble harassed Jewish students and faculty, physically blocking their passage around the campus and into university buildings. Jewish students were shoved and bullied. 

The deans did nothing as protestors invaded buildings, chanted antisemitic slogans and destroyed property.

Indeed, Columbia abetted a climate of terror. 

Students wearing keffiyehs as masks disrupted a class on Israeli history taught by an Israeli professor and distributed incendiary fliers reading, “Burn Zionism to the Ground.” 

This wasn’t just a matter of leniency and laziness on the part of university officials. It was intentional. 

Tenured faculty and top administrators expressed open support for the mayhem, and some were caught mocking Jewish students speaking up about the fear and intimidation they were suffering. 

Katrina Armstrong, the former interim president, told faculty members in private that she had no intention of making good on her promises to the administration to ban masked protests or reform admissions procedures.  

This lying and hypocrisy captures the elitist scorn of top Columbia faculty. Tenured radicals turned a blessed institution of culture and science into a pit of rancor and violence in the name of eliminating the Jewish state. 

Some of that may be about to change — though don’t expect all the fixes to come overnight.

Notably, Columbia has given in on all the points Harvard is fighting in court, and gotten its grant money restored.

Let’s hope that resonates with Harvard and nudges it, and other antisemitic schools, to straighten out, once and for all.