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Brown University has awarded the first grants under its deal with the Trump Administration.
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In a first step toward fulfilling a settlement with the Trump administration over alleged anti-semitism on its campus, Brown University has started making payments to local workforce development training.
The Ivy League school has announced a grant of $1.5 million to the Community College of Rhode Island, and an equal amount to Building Futures, a nonprofit apprenticeship program.
“These investments will provide important funding for key workforce initiatives by helping to maximize their impact and empower more residents to build stable, meaningful careers that strengthen the state’s economic growth,” Brown University President Christina H. Paxson said in a statement.
Brown reached an agreement with the Trump administration last summer to restore millions of dollars in federal research funding and to end federal investigations into the institution. In exchange, the university agreed to pay $50 million to organizations in Rhode Island focused on workforce training over the next 10 years.
Several other universities reached similar deals with the administration to restore federal funding, though the details of what the schools would pay vary greatly. For example, Columbia University agreed to pay the federal government $200 million over three years and $21 million to settle an inquiry into harassment related to the university’s Jewish employees.
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