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President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 announced that she formally rejected the Trump administration’s compact in a Wednesday letter to the Brown community. The compact, which was sent to the University on Oct. 1, would require Brown to freeze tuition for five years, limit grade inflation and cap international undergraduate enrollment at 15% in exchange for financial and other benefits. Of …

In emergency meeting, Vanderbilt Faculty Senate votes to condemn Trump administration ‘compact’  Tennessee Lookout MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages  The Wall Street Journal It’s no surprise MIT’s Sally Kornbluth is the first to flatly reject Trump’s deal  The Boston Globe MIT Rejects Special Funding Offer From Trump Administration  The New York Times Brown University president speaks out publicly about Trump’s …

“The premise of the document,“ Kornbluth continued, ”is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.” It marks academia’s clearest response yet to a 10-point document President Donald Trump sent last week asking schools to limit international student enrollment, freeze domestic tuition rates for five years, hew to certain definitions of gender, and …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding. MIT is among the first to express forceful views either in favor of or against an agreement the …

MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages  The Wall Street Journal MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding  The Washington Post Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed  The New York Times ‘It’s a threat’: UVA faculty reject Trump’s ‘Compact’ tying political compliance to federal funds  WRIC ABC 8News MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with …

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During an impassioned USC Academic Senate meeting on Monday, faculty strongly denounced and rejected the Trump administration offer to give the university funding preference in exchange for abiding by conservative education goals. In forceful speeches, University of Southern California department chairs, professors, researchers and others who attended the virtual meeting called the compact “egregiously invalid,” “probably unconstitutional,” “antithetical to principles …

Dear Dartmouth community,   As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”    I am deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence.    You have often …

Gov. Newsom on Friday waded further into the controversy surrounding a higher education compact President Trump has presented to nine universities including USC, chiding campus leadership to “do the right thing” and reject the offer. The compact, sent Wednesday to the University of Southern California and other campuses nationwide, has roiled higher education with its demands for rightward campus policy …

Calling a ‘code red,’ Newsom says universities must reject Trump’s compact  Politico New Trump plan offers UT funding benefits with conditions on academics  Austin American-Statesman Colleges weigh whether to sign on to Trump plan or forgo federal benefits  The Washington Post Marc Rowan, a Billionaire Financier, Is Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities  The New York Times Newsom threatens state funding for California universities that …