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