Concessions

Last spring Harvard and a number of other universities got a letter from the current U.S. administration informing them that they were in danger of losing the millions or even billions of dollars they are used to receiving from the federal government. 

Brown University (photo) in Providence, RI, got one. At stake was about $500 million, which the school calls "crippling cuts." As at Harvard, the issues were antisemitism and DEI policies. Their negotiated settlement included agreeing with the government to address "antisemitism, unlawful DEI, merit-based admissions, and gender identity issues."

Some at Brown say that the agreement was a "savvy bit of dealmaking, giving away little of substance." The founder (graduate 2021) of a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter at Brown agrees:

"Frankly, Brown got off easy.” During his time on College Hill, he says, “I saw exactly how hostile the campus was to ideological diversity. . . Forcing Brown to accept biological reality and merit-based admissions is a nice start, but the DEI bureaucracies, activist professors, and overall ideological capture is left untouched. Brown receives its money with barely a slap on the wrist.” 

Brown's alumni magazine admits that "Compared to the agreement Columbia University had signed a week earlier pledging $221 million in fines to the federal government, Brown made far fewer concessions."

from Brown Alumni Magazine

Additional note: "Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn't worth the cost . . a dramatic decline over the last decade." Sadly, I concur. We've discovered that universities and colleges in general are not doing what we Americans thought they were doing, and we can't keep giving them our tax money.