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In It to Win It

(11,232 posts)
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 10:52 PM 20 hrs ago

Trump administration reaches $50 million deal with Brown University to restore funding

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/30/politics/brown-university-trump-administration-agreement

The Trump administration has reached a multimillion-dollar agreement with Brown University to restore federal funding – its second major deal with an elite university after last week’s $221 million settlement with Columbia University.

In return for Brown agreeing to several measures aimed at dismantling certain diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the federal government will reinstate all frozen grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, restore the school’s eligibility for future funding, and close all pending investigations into the university, a White House official said.

But Brown, which was under financial strain even before the Trump administration began slashing research funding at a number of higher education institutions, was largely able to escape the nine-figure settlements the White House reached with Columbia and is seeking with Harvard University.

Under the deal announced Wednesday, the Providence-based school will pay $50 million in grants over 10 years to Rhode Island workforce development organizations, according to the White House official and Brown President Christina Paxson.

Brown is not making “any payments or fines to the federal government,” Paxson said in a letter to the university community.

Just read the Brown University agreement and this really jumped out.

"The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex."

Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-07-30T22:54:54.982Z

Excuse my language but what fucking business is it of the united states government whether Brown undertakes this kind of medical care for parents and their kids who fully consent to it and desire it? Insanity! Pure discrimination in an agreement trollingly cloaked in preventing discrimination.

Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-07-30T22:54:54.983Z

My favorite tidbit: Brown may not consider race (or any "proxy" for race) in its admissions, but it must report the race and "color" of every applicant to the federal government.

Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) 2025-07-31T01:58:10.509Z

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Veena Dubal (@veenadubal.bsky.social) 2025-07-30T23:46:05.417Z
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Trump administration reaches $50 million deal with Brown University to restore funding (Original Post) In It to Win It 20 hrs ago OP
Christ, how many universities is this criminal administration extorting? dgauss 19 hrs ago #1
Fake college Hornedfrog2000 19 hrs ago #2
"Fake college" seems an odd description for a university with a solid reputation. dgauss 19 hrs ago #4
Professors are just going to leave the U.S. WSHazel 19 hrs ago #3

dgauss

(1,394 posts)
4. "Fake college" seems an odd description for a university with a solid reputation.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:52 PM
19 hrs ago

You don't like them, think they're "fake," so extort them and throw them on some pile? I guess with the fake journalists. I think you use the word fake too often.

WSHazel

(547 posts)
3. Professors are just going to leave the U.S.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:19 PM
19 hrs ago

And take their research dollars and staffs with them. Why bother fighting this?

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