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Here are the colleges rejecting Trump’s funding compact
Four of nine major universities, including MIT and Brown, declined the Trump administration's compact citing threats to academic freedom despite potential federal funding priority.
- Ahead of the Oct. 20 deadline, the Trump administration offered a Compact for Academic Excellence to nine major universities, with MIT, Brown University, University of Southern California, and University of Pennsylvania rejecting it.
- The compact's contents would require the Compact's 10-point framework to bar race, sex, and similar factors in enrollment and aid, enforce institutional neutrality limiting faculty speech, and restrict transgender students and international undergraduate applicants.
- MIT's leadership argued that `In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence`, Brown University is respectfully declining to join, and USC warns tying research benefits to the compact threatens free inquiry.
- No school has accepted the offer, and California Governor Gavin Newsom warned signees could `instantly` lose billions in state funding while The White House threatened funding cuts; Penn, Columbia, and Brown faced restored or fined federal funds.
- After MIT rebuffed the plan, the White House said the compact was extended to more schools, with Trump meeting five undecided institutions; three have endowments over $20 billion, but donor limits restrict fund use.
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