Overview

• The agreement reinstates Brown’s frozen $510 million in federal research grants and restores reimbursement of unpaid federal grant costs.
• Brown will channel $50 million over ten years into Rhode Island workforce development efforts without making a direct payment to the federal government.
• The settlement resolves three federal reviews under Title VI and Title IX, addressing allegations of campus antisemitism, racial bias and gender discrimination.
• Under the deal, Brown adopts Trump-era definitions of “male” and “female,” bans gender-affirming care for minors and removes any consideration of race from admissions processes.
• With Columbia’s $221 million settlement in effect and Harvard still negotiating, Brown’s agreement underscores a model of using funding freezes to enforce campus policy compliance.