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Brown Restores $510M in Federal Research Grants as UCLA Funding Remains Frozen

Brown’s agreement ends three civil-rights reviews by adopting the administration’s gender definitions plus pledging a $50 million workforce donation to Rhode Island

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Campus security gather outside a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, on April 30, 2024. On July 29, 2025, UCLA reached a $6 million settlement with three Jewish students and a Jewish professor whose lawsuit against the university argued that it violated their civil rights by allowing protesters to block their access to classes and other areas on campus.
FILE - People walk between buildings on Harvard University campus, Dec. 17, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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Overview

  • Brown University’s voluntary agreement restores about $510 million in frozen research funds and resolves three federal investigations into campus antisemitism
  • The pact requires Brown to donate $50 million over the next ten years to state workforce development programs in Rhode Island
  • Brown will adopt the administration’s binary definitions of male and female and will prohibit gender-affirming surgeries and puberty blockers for minors
  • The settlement explicitly asserts that the government has no authority over Brown’s curriculum or the content of academic speech
  • Federal agencies have frozen nearly $200 million in grants to UCLA over alleged civil-rights violations and referred Harvard’s non-compliance in its antisemitism probe to the Department of Justice