Brown University settled a deal with the Trump administration to release $510 million in federal funding amid civil rights violations.
In a letter, Brown President Christina Paxson shared details about the agreement. The university would contribute $50 million over 10 years to “workforce development organizations” in compliance with anti-discrimination laws.
The letter added that Brown would end programs that promote “race-based outcomes, quotas, diversity targets or similar efforts,” and maintain “women-only and men-only” spaces and sports teams on campus.
“In Brown Athletics facilities, the University will provide female student-athletes with intimate facilities such as locker rooms and bathrooms strictly separated on the basis of sex,” the letter stated.
Earlier this year, the administration had been investigating Brown over alleged cases of antisemitism on campus. In April when the administration froze $510 million in federal education funding, Paxton said Brown would remain committed to meeting its obligations in following the law.
“The Trump Administration is successfully reversing the decades-long woke-capture of our nation’s higher education institutions,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement.
The Trump administration from day one has aspired to judging students based on their merits not race or gender, McMahon added.
“Brown has committed to proactive measures to protect Jewish students and combat Antisemitism on campus. Women’s sports and intimate facilities will be protected for women and Title IX will be enforced as it was intended,” the secretary said.
The administration has threatened universities that federal education funding could be taken away over Title VI violations. So far Brown is among 60 colleges and universities that the U.S. Department of Education has investigated over discrimination and harassment on campus.
Since the freeze, Brown has taken out $800 million in loans, according to Bloomberg.
In addition to Brown, the administration has frozen $400 million in funds from Columbia University and over $2 billion from Harvard University over rising administration and antisemitism concerns on campus.
“Restoring our nation’s higher education institutions to places dedicated to truth-seeking, academic merit and civil debate — where all students can learn free from discrimination and harassment — will be a lasting legacy of the Trump administration, one that will benefit students and American society for generations to come,” McMahon said.
