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University agrees to support Jewish students, end ‘gender-affirming care,’ race-based quotas
Brown University struck a deal with President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday, committing to pay $50 million to regain federal research funding and settle three probes into alleged discrimination.
The university also agreed to stop offering “gender-affirming care” for minors, protect women’s sports, and combat antisemitism, among other provisions, according to the agreement.
The school is set to pay $50 million in grants over ten years to Rhode Island “workforce development organizations” of the school’s choosing. The deal also reinstates Brown’s research funding and closes all current antidiscrimination compliance investigations with no determination of fault.
In exchange, the government cannot influence “Brown’s curriculum or the content of academic speech,” the agreement states.
However, the school cannot continue any program that engages in “unlawful efforts to achieve race-based outcomes, quotas, diversity targets or similar efforts.”
Brown must also adhere to Title IX, which includes using “male” and “female” labels for athletics and on-campus housing and addresses “provisions on gender-affirming care for minors.” This means the university cannot administer hormones or puberty blockers, or perform “gender reassignment surgery” to minors.
Shifting to the issue of discrimination, the deal requires Brown to take “significant, proactive, effective steps to combat antisemitism and ensure a campus environment free from harassment.”
The steps will include strengthening the school’s Judaic Studies program and education about Israel. It will also expand its outreach to Jewish Day School students and provide resources for Jewish community members.
In addition, Brown will also renew “partnerships with Israeli academics and national Jewish organizations,” increase security for Jewish students, and host a celebration marking 130 years of Jewish life on campus during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Trump pulled hundreds of millions from the university in April while it investigated the school’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies and response to antisemitism on campus, The College Fix previously reported.
In a message announcing the deal to the campus community Wednesday, Brown President Christina Paxson stated: “A federal funding freeze that began in April posed enormous challenges for Brown’s research mission and financial sustainability, and if left unaddressed, would have undermined our ability to conduct life-saving research and to offer our students a world-class education.”
“The government will end the large-scale freeze that ultimately had implications for hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding to Brown. Our researchers will again be fully eligible for federal funding moving forward, and the government will reimburse the University — and ensure ongoing funding flows — for the existing active grants within 30 days,” Paxson stated.
Regarding the restrictions on “gender-affirming care,” the president stated the school will refer students seeking such care to “area specialists.”
She also addressed the provision regarding race-based quotas, stating “For future classes of students who enroll, Brown agreed to provide the government with additional anonymized demographic data demonstrating our legal compliance.”
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IMAGE CAPTION AND CREDIT: Brown University campus and President Trump at rally in 2016; Anthony Ricci and Evan El-Amin/Shutterstock
