MIT Says It Will Not Sign Trump Admin‘s Higher Education Compact

MIT Says It Will Not Sign Trump Admin‘s Higher Education Compact

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has declined to sign onto the Trump administration’s proposed compact, which would mandate campus reforms in exchange for preferential access to federal funding. MIT President Sally Kornbluth announced the decision on Oct. 10 in a campus-wide letter attaching her formal response to Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who invited nine universities to sign the new agreement. The proposed “Compact for …

'Refusing to cave': Glee as MIT becomes first school to stand up to Trump 'ransom note'

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first university to reject President Donald Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which critics have called an “extortion” agreement for federal funding.MIT and eight other schools—the University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas, Vanderbilt Universit…

MIT is First School to Reject Trump Administration's Plan for Higher Education

"MIT disagreed with a number of aspects of the administration's proposal, which was sent to nine major universities last week"

MIT’s resistance gives boost to academics’ efforts to defy Trump

University leaders who have struggled to counter the Trump administration’s monthslong campaign to rewrite higher education just caught the biggest break academia has had all year. Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth’s public rejection Friday of an offer to voluntarily link the school’s federal funding to President Donald Trump’s higher education priorities on college finance, hiring and admissions came after a string…

It’s no surprise MIT’s Sally Kornbluth is the first to flatly reject Trump’s deal - The Boston Globe

Kornbluth deserves all the credit for standing up for her institution’s core values, even at considerable risk.

MIT Rejects Trump’s Higher Education Compact, Warning It’s a 'One-Sided Deal' That Threatens Academic Independence | Attack of the Fanboy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday publicly rejected an offer from the Trump administration that would link the university’s federal funding to compliance with certain White House priorities on higher education. The move comes as the administration seeks to influence college finance, admissions, and faculty hiring through a voluntary compact with nine selected institutions. The compact proposes benefits inc…