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The University of Arizona has become the seventh US university to reject a Trump administration proposal that would grant schools funding priority if they agreed to support the administration’s conservative agenda. The decision follows the administration’s push for nine universities to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which seeks to make sweeping changes to campus culture, hiring …

University of Arizona declines to sign onto Trump administration ‘compact’  Reuters All but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding  The New York Times University of Arizona becomes seventh US college to reject Trump’s ‘compact’  The Guardian As deadline for Trump’s colleges compact looms, schools signal dissent  NPR Community message from interim President Paul Mahoney  UVA Today Source link

Can a University From Tennessee Help Accelerate Growth in West Palm Beach?  The New York Times Source link

At least three people, including at least one student, have been injured in a shooting at Oklahoma State University’s main campus in Stillwater early Sunday morning, according to police. The university’s police department responded to Carreker East, a three-story residential hall on campus, at around 3:40 a.m. after victims arriving at off-campus locations reported the incident. All of the victims …

University of Virginia turns down Trump deal for priority federal funding  The Washington Post University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges  The New York Times 5 universities reject White House funding deal with attached demands. Multiple other schools have yet to respond  CNN UVA declines invitation to join federal education compact  UVA Today University of Pennsylvania declines to sign agreement to …

University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges  The New York Times 4 universities reject White House funding deal with attached demands. 5 schools yet to respond  CNN Academic freedom should not be for sale  The Daily Texan Penn, USC join growing list of universities declining Trump’s federal funding deal  Politico U.Va. rejects Trump administration Compact for Academic Excellence  The Cavalier Daily Source …

The University of Southern California on Thursday said that it had rejected the controversial education compact the Trump administration offered it and eight other schools. USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer, which would give priority research funding access to universities …

Indiana University has fired its director of student media amid growing tension between the school and the student newspaper over what content was allowed in the print edition. Director of student media Jim Rodenbush, an adviser to the Indiana Daily Student, confirmed to NBC News that he was fired on Tuesday. His firing came hours before the school instructed IDS …

Brown University rejects Trump administration’s compact  The Hill Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment  The New York Times The Logical End Point of Trump’s Higher-Education Agenda  The Atlantic Brown University declines to join Trump’s compact  WJAR Brown University rejects Trump proposal to overhaul policies for preferential funding  The Guardian Source link

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 …