Goodbye to college funding: These are the major universities hit by Donald Trump’s funding freeze

The Trump administration has been on a crusade to remove Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies from universities across the nation by withholding hundreds of millions in federal funding. Additionally, his Department of Education warned 60 institutions of higher education that they could face potential enforcement actions for their inadequate response to antisemitism on their campuses.

The most recent university that could lose federal funding is Brown in Providence, Rhode Island. The Daily Caller reported that the White House plans to freeze $510 federal grants while it studies the school’s efforts to eliminate DEI policies, and the Education Department carries out its investigation into “Title VI violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination.”

While CBS reports that the White House has confirmed the story, Brown’s provost Frank Doyle told academic leaders in a message that “at this moment, we have no information to substantiate any of these rumors.” He said that there was nothing more that could be shared presently, but that the university was “closely monitoring notifications related to grants.”

Other major universities hit by Donald Trump’s funding freeze

Brown joins a growing list of Ivy League schools that are facing funding cuts or all-out freezes under the Trump administration. Earlier last week, the Trump administration canceled $210 million in research grants to Princeton University.

The funding freezes kicked off in March with the announcement that because of “the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students,” the White House was cutting $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University. Also last month the Trump administration suspended $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania.

Havard University was put on notice as well when it was informed that $9 billion in contracts and grants were under review.

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