The deal, which will require Brown to spend $50 million, comes after two other Ivy League schools negotiated with the Trump administration to restore millions in research dollars.
The university was accused of racial discrimination in its health care system, the latest high-profile school targeted and stripped of federal funding.
Letters that Trump officials sent to Duke University accused its medical school and health system of racism with no evidence. Anti-DEI group’s federal complaint is more specific.
The nine-page memo builds on the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs. More than three months after a federal court struck down an Education Department directive that barred any practices that consider race at colleges across the country, the Department of Justice declared Wednesday that diversity, equity and inclusion practices are unlawful and “discriminatory.”