Trump even issues list of requirements to Harvard to prevent losing money
Brown University is now the second area of a cash ice by President Donald Trump’s administration, with$ 510 million on the line.
The management plans to delay the money while it investigates the university’s “diversity, capital, and addition” policies and reply to antisemitism on school, the Daily Caller reported.
This lack of funding may produce significant losses for the institution, as it “received about$ 184 million through governmental grants and contracts” in 2024, according to The New York Times.
Provost Frank Doyle told the school via message Thursday about” troubling stories emerging about national actions on Brown research offers”.
Nevertheless, he had” no data to prove any of these stories” at the time.
Brown President Christina Paxson recently issued a speech on March 19 saying Trump’s related demands of different universities “raise new and previously inconceivable questions about the future of intellectual independence and self-governance”.
” The nation has witnessed what many in higher education fear may be only the first examples of unprecedented government demands placed on a private university as a condition for restoring federal funding”, Paxson ( pictured ) wrote.
” If Brown faced such deeds directly impacting our ability to perform essential scientific and operational characteristics, we may be compelled to vigorously exercising our constitutional rights to protect these freedoms, and true to our values, we would do so with dignity and respect”, she wrote.
The anticipated cash ice comes after a letter from the U. S. Department of Education last quarter to 60 universities, including Brown, caution of “potential police actions” if they fail to protect Jewish students on campus, according to a media release from the department.
Also included in the letter was Harvard University, which was hit Thursday with a list of demands it must fulfill to avoid losing funding, the Associated Press reported.
The letter demands the school ban face masks, enforce disciplinary policies, eliminate DEI practices, “reject race- and gender-based preferences in hiring and review”, and review programs “accused of fueling antisemitism”, The Harvard Crimson reported.
The Trump administration has suspended over$ 8.7 billion in multi-year grants and$ 255 million in contracts from Harvard due to antisemitism concerns, The College Fix previously reported.
The administration will determine whether to issue Stop Work Orders for any identified contracts. Further, it has mandated the school to” submit a comprehensive list of all contracts—both direct and through affiliates—between their institution and the federal government”, according to news release from the education department.  ,
At the end of March, however,” More than 600 Harvard faculty signed a letter to Harvard’s governing boards urging the University to publicly condemn attacks on universities and defy orders that interfere with its independence”, the Crimson reported.
These actions follow similar funding cuts to Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania, tied to issues like antisemitism, DEI policies, and men participating in women’s sports.
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IMAGE CAPTION AND CREDIT: Brown President Christina Paxson giving a speech, Brown University
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