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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,470 posts)
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 07:48 PM Jul 2025

Trump administration strikes deal with Brown University to restore funding

Source: CBS News

Brown University has cut a deal with the Trump administration to restore research grant funding to the school, in exchange for commitments on women's sports, antisemitism and admissions practices and a promise to donate $50 million to workforce development programs.

The Rhode Island-based school is now the third Ivy League university to reach a deal with the administration, which has lashed out at a range of colleges. Columbia University agreed to pay the federal government a $200 million settlement earlier this month, and the University of Pennsylvania reached a deal with the government over transgender athletes.

Brown announced the deal in a statement Wednesday and shared a copy of a nine-page agreement with the federal government. The Department of Education also confirmed in a statement that it had struck a deal with Brown.

Under the terms of the three-year deal released by Brown, the federal government agreed to restore frozen Health and Human Services grants to the school and close pending federal non-discrimination investigations into the university.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-strikes-deal-brown-215010935.html

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Trump administration strikes deal with Brown University to restore funding (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 OP
The fact that we now live in a time where universities need to suck off the president in order to get funding is beyond Karasu Jul 2025 #1
Caving in to coercive blackmail SpankMe Jul 2025 #2
And higher education keeps going down the Trump-drain. ananda Jul 2025 #3
This is embarrassing angrychair Jul 2025 #4

Karasu

(2,081 posts)
1. The fact that we now live in a time where universities need to suck off the president in order to get funding is beyond
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 08:02 PM
Jul 2025

embarrassing.

SpankMe

(3,762 posts)
2. Caving in to coercive blackmail
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 08:04 PM
Jul 2025

All Brown U alumni should cease donating to and supporting the university. A profile in cowardice.

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