"These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission-work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law,"
"would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution"
"the premise of the document is inconsistent"
MIT publicly declined to sign the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence, becoming the first of nine invited universities to do so. Nine institutions were invited, including Brown, Dartmouth, Arizona, Pennsylvania, USC, Texas at Austin, Virginia and Vanderbilt; many have said they are reviewing the compact while Texas expressed some enthusiasm. MIT President Sally Kornbluth sent a campus letter and a response to Education Secretary Linda McMahon. Kornbluth noted alignment with values such as merit, low student costs and free expression, but said several compact demands would limit institutional independence and freedom of expression.
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