Earlier this year, Brown University entered into a settlement with the Trump administration which saw it commit to combatting antisemitism and exclude men from women's sports.

Trump saw another victory this week when the university announced that it will be cutting its bloated workforce. 

Brown cuts 48 jobs, eliminates 55 open positions

According to Fox Business, the revelation came in the form of a press release which Brown put out on Monday. The institution explained that it is eliminating 48 jobs while also abolishing 55 open positions.

That development was welcomed by former Brown student Alex Shieh, who testified before the House Judiciary Committee in June about inflated costs at Ivy League universities.

Shieh is on the board of The Brown Spectator, a conservative public which created Bloat@Brown, a website that tracks excessive spending at Brown.

"The layoffs at Brown prove that the message of Bloat@Brown has been true all along: many of these administrators were unnecessary in the first place," Shieh told Fox Business.

Shieh condemns "educational industrial complex"

"In recent years, Ivy League colleges have morphed into a bloated ‘educational industrial complex’ run by self-dealing administrators who charge families record tuition and divert the money to layers of staff that add little to the classroom," Shieh told Fox News Digital.

"The result has been an Ivy League that masquerades as a meritocracy while in reality predominately serving the richest Americans who can afford the $93,064 costs and fees," he continued.

"The recent reduction in administrators is a victory for students, particularly those who are struggling to afford the crushing cost of attendance," he stressed.

"But the fact that the bloat has persisted for so long is why Americans no longer trust elite institutions to serve their interests," Shieh complained.

"It’s also why I dropped out of Brown this summer to found a venture-backed startup: to diminish the perception of the Ivy League as a gatekeeper to career opportunities by proving that one can be successful without an Ivy League degree, or a college degree at all," the former student added.

Brown says cuts are the result of "ongoing federal impacts'

Meanwhile, Brown provided a statement to Fox Business which linked staffing cutbacks to the White House, explaining that they are needed "to offset expected losses in Brown’s budget from ongoing federal impacts."

Brown to cut 48 jobs, scrap 55 open positions following federal pressure, student’s exposé of Ivy League bloat https://t.co/XBaNJvhn9A

— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) September 24, 2025

"Those impacts include expected declines in federal research funding, the persisting threat of deep cuts to indirect cost reimbursements for research grants to higher education, and other federal policy changes will affect tuition revenue," the statement insisted.