The Trump administration plans to freeze more than half a billion dollars in federal grants and contracts to Brown University, The Post has learned.
The administration intends to withhold $510 million in federal funding to Brown University while it reviews the Ivy League School’s response to alleged cases of antisemitism on its Providence, R.I., campus, as well as the institution’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies, a White House official confirmed Thursday.
Brown University Provost Frank Doyle told faculty and staff in an email Thursday that he was “aware” of the “troubling rumors emerging about federal action on Brown research grants” but that he had “no information to substantiate” a potentially imminent funding pause.
The Daily Caller first reported on the Trump administration’s plans for Brown University.
The Rhode Island school was one of 60 colleges and universities that the Department of Education’s civil rights arm warned earlier this month could have federal funding taken away over alleged antisemitic discrimination and harassment on campus.
The private institution’s $7.2 billion endowment is the lowest among schools in the Ivy League.
Brown also reported a $42 million budget deficit in 2024, which the school expects “to grow significantly in the near term.”
President Trump’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism — which includes the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services and the General Services Administration — previously froze about $400 million in federal funds from fellow Ivy League school, Columbia University, over antisemitism concerns.
Last month, Columbia University agreed to adhere to nine preconditions to gain back its federal funding.
The Trump administration has also reportedly halted $210 million in grants and contracts to Princeton University in response to alleged antisemitism on campus and is probing more than $8.7 billion worth of multi-year federal grant commitments with Harvard University.
The Trump administration is using Title VI of the Civil Rights Act — which prohibits institutions of higher education from receiving federal money if they participate in or enable discrimination based on race, national origin, religion or other characteristics — to hold back the taxpayer-funded grants.
