Trump has withheld hundreds of millions in federal funds from top universities in effort to reshape US higher education.
Brown University has become the third Ivy League campus to reach a deal with the administration of United States President Donald Trump, in a bid to restore frozen federal funding.
The agreement, announced on Wednesday, is the latest instance of an elite US school bargaining with the president and acceding to his demands.
As part of the deal, Brown will pay $50m over 10 years to improve Rhode Island’s workforce development programmes. It will also commit to supporting its local Jewish community and restricting its acknowledgement of transgender students.
The agreement comes amid a wider campaign by the Trump administration to withhold federal funds from elite universities in an effort to stem “woke” ideology and combat anti-Semitism.
