{"id":106230,"date":"2025-07-31T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106230\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:58:09","slug":"brown-university-strikes-deal-with-trump-administration-to-restore-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106230\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University strikes deal with Trump administration to restore funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Brown University will pay $50 million to Rhode Island workforce development organizations in a deal with the Trump administration that restores lost federal research funding<\/a> and ends investigations into alleged discrimination, officials said Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The university also agreed to several concessions in line with President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> political agenda. Brown will adopt the government\u2019s definition of \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cfemale,\u201d for example, and must remove any consideration of race from the admissions process.<\/p>\n

Brown President Christina H. Paxson said the deal preserves Brown\u2019s academic independence. The terms include a clause saying the government cannot dictate curriculum or the content of academic speech at Brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe University\u2019s foremost priority throughout discussions with the government was remaining true to our academic mission, our core values and who we are as a community at Brown,\u201d Paxson wrote. <\/p>\n

It is the latest deal between an Ivy League school and the Trump administration, which has used its control of federal funding to push for reforms at colleges Trump decries as overrun by liberalism and antisemitism. The administration also has launched investigations into diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, saying they discriminate against white and Asian American students.<\/p>\n

The Brown deal has similarities with one signed last week by Columbia University,<\/a> which the government called a roadmap for other universities. Unlike that agreement, however, Brown\u2019s does not include an outside monitor.<\/p>\n

The three-year agreement with Brown restores dozens of suspended grants and contracts. It also calls for the federal government to reimburse Brown for $50 million in unpaid federal grant costs. <\/p>\n

The settlement puts an end to three federal investigations involving allegations of antisemitism and racial bias in Brown admissions, with no finding of wrongdoing. In a campus letter, Paxson anticipated questions about why the university would settle if it didn\u2019t violate the law. She noted Brown has faced financial pressure from federal agencies along with \u201ca growing push for government intrusion\u201d in academics.<\/p>\n

Signing the agreement resolves the government\u2019s concerns without sacrificing university values, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand solidly behind commitments we repeatedly have affirmed to protect all members of our community from harassment and discrimination, and we protect the ability of our faculty and students to study and learn academic subjects of their choosing, free from censorship,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Brown agreed to several measures aimed at addressing allegations of antisemitism on its campus in Providence, Rhode Island. The school said it will renew partnerships with Israeli academics and encourage Jewish day school students to apply to Brown. By the end of this year, Brown must hire an outside organization \u2014 to be chosen jointly by Brown and the government \u2014 to conduct a campus survey on the climate for Jewish students.<\/p>\n

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Brown\u2019s deal ensures students will be judged \u201csolely on their merits, not their race or sex.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump Administration is successfully reversing the decades-long woke-capture of our nation\u2019s higher education institutions,\u201d McMahon said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The settlement requires Brown to disclose a wealth of data on students who apply to and are admitted to the university, with information about their race, grades and standardized test scores. The data will be subject to a \u201ccomprehensive audit\u201d by the government. <\/p>\n

It bars Brown from giving preference to applicants because of their race. A 2023 Supreme Court decision already forbids such consideration, but the deal appears to go further, stopping Brown from using any \u201cproxy for racial admission,\u201d including personal statements or \u201cdiversity narratives.\u201d<\/p>\n

The $50 million in payments to local workforce development organizations agreed to by Brown are to be paid over 10 years.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s \u201ca step forward\u201d from paying a fine to the government, as Columbia agreed to do, said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, an organization of major universities. Still, Mitchell said, it remains unclear whether Brown and other universities are clear of governmental pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s remember, these are deals. These are not policies,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cI had hoped that the Trump administration, when it came in, was going to be interested in having serious policy discussions about the future of higher education. They\u2019ve yet to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Columbia last week agreed to pay $200 million to the government as part of its settlement. In negotiations with Harvard<\/a>, the Trump administration has been pressing for the Cambridge, Massachusetts, school to pay far more.<\/p>\n

In another agreement, the University of Pennsylvania pledged to modify school records<\/a> set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas<\/a>, a deal that included no fine. ___<\/p>\n

Associated Press writer Cheyanne Mumphrey contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press\u2019 education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP\u2019s standards<\/a> for working with philanthropies, a list<\/a> of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Brown University will pay $50 million to Rhode Island workforce development organizations in a deal…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[12648,3881,1613,68227,16720,12575,12576,16956,12514,69,407,4934,19121,57,325,1612,26398,17845,50,80,2737,2740,68228,3060,4217,17051,19123,61,67,370,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-106230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-antisemitism","10":"tag-ap-top-news","11":"tag-central-america","12":"tag-christina-h-paxson","13":"tag-colleges-and-universities","14":"tag-colombia","15":"tag-colombia-government","16":"tag-discrimination","17":"tag-diversity","18":"tag-donald-trump","19":"tag-education","20":"tag-education-funding","21":"tag-equity-and-inclusion","22":"tag-general-news","23":"tag-government-budgets","24":"tag-latin-america","25":"tag-lia-thomas","26":"tag-linda-mcmahon","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-politics","29":"tag-rhode-island","30":"tag-ri-state-wire","31":"tag-school-curricula","32":"tag-schools","33":"tag-south-america","34":"tag-subsidies","35":"tag-ted-mitchell","36":"tag-u-s-news","37":"tag-united-states","38":"tag-united-states-government","39":"tag-unitedstates","40":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}