The Trump administration plans to freeze $510 million in federal grants to Brown University over allegations of anti-Semitism on its campus, the Reuters news agency reports, citing an unnamed U.S. official.
In an e-mail to campus leaders on Thursday, Brown University provost, Frank Doyle, said he was aware of “troubling rumours emerging about federal action on Brown research grants” but added he had “no information to substantiate any of these rumours.”
The Trump administration’s action, if confirmed, will be the latest measures taken against an academic institution over the issue of anti-Semitism, after Columbia University had $400 million in federal funding slashed last month.
Princeton University also said earlier this week that the White House has frozen several dozen research grants to the school, while the Trump administration is reportedly reviewing $9 billion in federal contracts and grants awarded to Harvard University.
Trump has threatened to slash federal funding for dozens of universities over allegations they have allowed anti-Semitism to proliferate on campus since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023.
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
