People are seen going through the Brown University campus in Providence, RI, on October 12, 2020.
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Washington – Brown University will pay $ 50 million to Rhode Island’s workforce development organizations in an agreement with the Trump administration that restores the loss of federal research funds and ends research on alleged discrimination, the authorities said Wresthay.
The University also agreed several in -line concessions with the political agenda of President Donald Trump. Brown will adopt the definition of the government of “man” and “woman”, for example, and must eliminate any consideration of the breed of the admission process.
Brown President Christina H. Paxson said the agreement preserves Brown’s academic independence. The terms include a clause that says that the government cannot dictate the curriculum or the content of the academic discourse in Brown.
“The main priority of the university through discussions with the government was very good to our academic mission, our central values and who we are as a community in Brown,” Paxson wrote.
It is the last agreement between the Ivy League school and the Trump administration, which has used its federal control or funds to boost the reforms in the universities that Trump decreases as invaded by liberalism and anti -Semitism. The administration has also launched research on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, saying that they discriminate against white and Asian -American students.
Brown’s agreement has similarities with one signed last week by Columbia University, which the government called a road map for other universities. Unlike that agreement, however, Brown does not include an external monitor.
The three -year agreement with Brown restores subsidy boxes and suspended contracts. It also requires the Federal Government to reimburse Brown for $ 50 million in unpaid federal subsidies costs.
The agreement ends three federal investigations that involve accusations of anti -Semitism and racial bias in brown admissions, without irregular findings. In a letter from the campus, Paxson anticipated questions about why the university would establish IFT, did not violate the law. He pointed out that Brown has faced a financial pressure from federal agencies along with “a growing impulse due to government intrusion” in academics.
The signing of the agreement resolves government concerns without sacrificing university values, he said.
“We are solidly behind the commitments that we have repeatedly affirmed to protect all the members of our community from harassment and discrimination, and we protect the ability of our faculty and students to study and learn academic issues of their censorship,” Sheir.
Brown agreed several measures aimed at addressing the accusations of anti -Semitism on his campus in Providence, Rhode Island. The school said it will renew associations with Israeli academics and encourage students from the Jewish daily school to request Brown. At the end of this year, Brown must hire an external organization, which Brown and the Government, chose a campus survey on the climate for Jewish students.
The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, said that Brown’s agreement ensures that students will be tried “only for their merits, not in their race or sex.”
“The Trump administration is successful that was reazed in decades of the capture of the alarm clock of the higher education institutions of our nations,” McMahon said in a statement.
The agreement requires that Brown reveals a large amount of data on students who request and are admitted to the University, with information about their race, grades and standardized exam scores. The data will be subject to an “comprehensive audit” by the government.
Brown to give preference to applicants due to their race. A decision of the Supreme Court of 2023 already prohibits such consideration, but the agreement seems to go further, preventing Brown from using any “power for racial admission”, including personal or “narratives of diversity.”
The $ 50 million in payments to local workforce development organizations agreed by Brown will be paid for 10 years.
That is “a step forward” to pay a fine to the government, as Columbia agreed to do, said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, an organization of the main universities. Even so, Mitchell said, it is not clear if Brown and other universities are away from government pressure.
“Let us remember, these are offers. These are not political,” Mitchell said. “I had expected the Trump administration, when it arrived, was interested in having serious political discussions about the future of higher education. They still have to do that.”
Columbia last week, Egerred, will pay $ 200 million to the government as part of its agreement. In negotiations with Harvard, the Trump administration has been pressing for the Cambridge school, Massachusetts, to pay much more.
In another agreement, the University of Pennsylvania promised to modify the school records established by the transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, an agreement that did not include fine.