Trump admin halting $510M in funding to Brown College over antisemitism response

[ad_1] Greater than half a billion {dollars} in federal funding to Brown University is being halted by the Trump administration over the Ivy League's response to antisemitism since Hamas' 2023 assault in Israel.

A White Home official mentioned practically $510 million awarded to the college via federal contracts and grants is on the road, The Related Press reported, including that the official spoke on situation of anonymity.

Fox Information Digital reached out to Brown College, however didn't instantly hear again.

Brown Provost Frank Doyle mentioned in an e mail on Thursday to campus leaders that the varsity is conscious of "troubling rumors" about its analysis cash, however they have no "info to substantiate" the claims, in line with The AP.

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The Trump administration is reportedly set to halt practically $510 million in federal funding to Brown College as the federal government investigates the Ivy League's response to antisemitic protests on campus final 12 months. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

President Donald Trump has suspended federal funding to each Ivy League, in addition to Penn and Dartmouth, over investigations into anti-Israel protests which have taken place on their campuses since October 2023. Funding for dozens of different universities has additionally been impacted by investigations for a similar purpose.

Columbia College, which had greater than $400 million in federal funding taken away, was the primary Ivy League to lose cash over its failure to make Jewish college students really feel protected on campus. The college caved to calls for from the Trump administration late final month in hopes of restoring the funding.

This week, a federal antisemitism task force introduced a overview of Harvard's federal grants and contracts, value practically $9 billion, because the college faces an investigation into campus antisemitism, and Princeton College confirmed dozens of its analysis grants have been halted.

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The Trump administration has promised to be extra aggressive in ending campus antisemitism after saying President Joe Biden didn't maintain universities accountable for his or her violent protests.

"People have watched in horror for greater than a 12 months now, as Jewish college students have been assaulted and harassed on elite college campuses – repeatedly overrun by antisemitic college students and agitators. Illegal encampments and demonstrations have fully paralyzed day-to-day campus operations, depriving Jewish college students of studying alternatives to which they're entitled," Schooling Secretary Linda McMahon mentioned in a press release final month.

She mentioned colleges that obtain federal funding "have a accountability to guard all college students from discrimination" and described the failure to take action as a purpose to query if the college needs to be "doing enterprise with the USA authorities."

The administration has additionally made strikes to detain and deport international college students who participated in or orchestrated anti-Israel protests at American universities.

Brown College was one in all many campuses throughout the U.S. impacted by anti-Israel protests final 12 months. ( Joseph Prezioso / AFP)

The Division of Homeland Safety introduced final month that an assistant professor at Brown, who held an H-1B visa, was deported to Lebanon for her assist of and attendance on the funeral of a slain Hezbollah chief.

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Brown made headlines final 12 months for a deal it struck with anti-Israel protesters, who had been taking on the college, promising to have its governing board vote on whether or not it ought to divest from firms linked to Israel.