The Trump administration plans on halting $510 million of federal grants to Brown University because of the administration’s alleged failure to address campus antisemitism and their continuation of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
Brown University is set to become the latest Ivy League university to have its funds halted over its campus antisemitism, joining a list that includes Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.
Brown provost Frank Doyle said in an email to colleagues that he was aware of “troubling rumors emerging about federal action on Brown research grants” but could not substantiate them. NR has reached out to Brown for comment.
The Daily Caller first reported on the funding pause.
Brown was one of many colleges and universities to have an anti-Israel encampment last year as campus radicals pushed the university to divest from companies doing business in Israel because of its war against Hamas.
In April 2024, the school negotiated a deal with students to end its encampment in exchange for a vote in October on potential divestment. Brown eventually declined to divest from ten companies highlighted by a student activist proposal, given that Brown had small, indirect investments in them.
When the Trump administration moved to pull $400 million of funding from Columbia last month, Brown released a statement condemning the decision to hold up funding and defending its academic freedom and campus environment.
“If government agencies have valid concerns about the way the University fulfills this commitment effectively, we should and must come to the table to work together toward solutions. But, not at the expense of abandoning foundational academic values,” Brown President Christina Paxson said.
Weeks after the funding pause, Columbia cut a deal with the federal government to ban masks that hide protesters faces and empower law enforcement to arrest unruly demonstrators. Columbia interim president Katrina Armstrong resigned in late March after privately downplaying the agreed upon changes.
The Trump administration Monday announced it is reviewing $9 billion of federal funding to Harvard because of campus antisemitism and Tuesday the White House suspended funding for research grants to Princeton University.
The administration is currently investigating dozens of universities for potential violations of civil rights laws through their left-wing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, in addition to its investigations of numerous schools because of campus antisemitism. An inter
Antisemitic activity exploded on college campuses following Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023 and Israel’s subsequent war against the terrorist group in Gaza. Student radicals and outside activists at many campuses nationwide set off anti-Israel tent encampments to protest American support for Israel’s war effort and their respective university’s financial ties to companies doing business in Israel. The protests were often accompanied by calls to eradicate Israel and anti-American viewpoints.