Apr 3, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump admin to pull $510 million in funding from Brown University

Sareen Habeshian

Students attending Brown University walk through the main campus March 19, 2025 in Providence, Rhode Island. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) — Students at Brown University's main campus on March 19 in Providence, Rhode Island. Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

The Trump administration intends to pull some $510 million in federal funding from Brown University, a White House official confirmed to Axios on Thursday.

The big picture: The Providence, Rhode Island, school is among five Ivy League universities to have its federal funding reviewed or revoked in recent weeks — alongside Princeton, Columbia, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.

Brown is one of 60 colleges and universities under investigation for allegations of antisemitic harassment and discrimination.

Driving the news: Brown's provost, Frank Doyle, sent campus academic leaders an email Thursday afternoon saying the university is "aware there are troubling rumors emerging about federal action on Brown research grants" but that "at this moment, we have no information to substantiate any of these rumors."

A Brown spokesperson told Axios Thursday evening that the university still has "no information to substantiate what's being reported."
The Daily Caller first reported on the news.

Go deeper: Columbia caves to Trump demands to regain $400 million in funding

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