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2025年12月16日，美国罗德岛州普罗维登斯市布朗大学发生枪击案，嫌犯仍在搜捕中，布朗大学校长克里斯蒂娜·帕克森在新闻发布会上发言。REUTERS/泰勒·科斯特/档案照片 购买授权，将在新标签页打开
8月3日电——布朗大学校长克里斯蒂娜·帕克森周一宣布，她将在本学年结束后卸任。此前一段时期，她与唐纳德·特朗普政府就该政府威胁削减这所常春藤盟校的联邦经费一事产生激烈冲突。
据该校官网发布的一封公开信（将在新标签页打开）显示，帕克森原本计划一年前就离职，但为了“应对危及本校使命的联邦经费冻结”，她延长了在这所位于罗德岛州普罗维登斯市的大学的任期。
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特朗普第二任期期间，布朗是首批成为政府打击目标的高校之一，当时政府以所谓的反犹太学生抗议以色列对加沙战争、多元化政策等一系列问题为由，对美国高校采取整治行动。
抗议者包括一些犹太团体表示，政府错误地将对以色列袭击加沙及其占领巴勒斯坦领土的批评贴上反犹太主义的标签，将倡导巴勒斯坦权利等同于支持极端主义。
在政府官员威胁冻结布朗大学5.1亿美元联邦拨款后，帕克森于2025年7月达成协议，恢复了这笔经费。协议条款要求该校对包括犹太学生在内的校园氛围开展第三方评估，并提出改善措施。
但在同年10月，帕克森拒绝了政府向九所顶尖高校提出的一项提议。该提议称，若高校限制国际学生数量、基于生物学定义性别、禁止在招聘和招生中考虑种族或性别因素，将可获得联邦经费优惠。
帕克森当时表示，接受该协议将“限制学术自由，破坏布朗大学的治理自主权”。
在周一的离职信中，帕克森写道：“尽管整体联邦政策环境对所有高校而言仍充满变数，但布朗大学目前正获得用于开创性研究的大额拨款，这些研究将为美国带来巨大创新。”
帕克森在任期内还协助校方应对了悲剧事件。
去年12月，一名前学生在校园内开枪行凶，造成两名学生死亡、九人受伤。枪手随后杀害了麻省理工学院的一名教授，最终被发现死于自杀枪伤。
联邦当局随后对布朗大学的紧急通知和校园监控系统展开了审查。
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Brown University’s president, who clashed with Trump over funding, steps down
August 3, 2026 9:04 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago / By Julia Harte / Reuters
Brown University President Christina Paxson listens during a press conference as the manhunt continues for the gunman, following a shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. December 16, 2025. REUTERS/Taylor Coester/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
Aug 3 – Brown University President Christina Paxson said on Monday that she would leave her post at the end of the academic year, following a difficult period in which she clashed with President Donald Trump’s administration over its threats to slash the Ivy League school’s federal funding.
Paxson said she had planned to leave her job one year earlier, but extended her tenure at the university, located in Providence, Rhode Island, to “navigate a federal funding freeze that imperiled our mission,” according to an open letter, opens new tab published on the school’s website.
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Brown was an early target of the administration during Trump’s second term in office as it cracked down on U.S. universities over what it called antisemitic student protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, diversity policies and a host of other issues.
Protesters, including some Jewish groups, have said the administration has wrongly labeled criticism of Israel’s assault on Gaza and its occupation of Palestinian territories as antisemitism and advocacy for Palestinian rights as support for extremism.
After administration officials threatened to block $510 million in federal grants for Brown, Paxson reached a deal in July 2025 to restore the funding. The terms required the university to conduct a third-party evaluation of its campus climate, including for Jewish students, and propose actions to improve it.
In October, though, Paxson declined an administration offer sent to nine elite universities, which said schools would be favored for federal funding if they capped the number of international students, defined gender based on biology and banned the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions.
Accepting the deal would “restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance,” Paxson said at the time.
In her farewell letter on Monday, Paxson wrote that “while the federal landscape remains volatile for all colleges and universities, Brown is receiving major grants for pioneering research that will lead to tremendous innovation for this country.”
Paxson also helped the university navigate tragedy during her tenure.
In December, a former student opened fire on campus, leaving two students dead and nine wounded. The shooter went on to kill a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor before being found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Federal authorities subsequently scrutinized Brown’s emergency notification and campus surveillance systems.
Reporting by Julia Harte; Editing by Jesse Mesner-Hage and Will Dunham
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