"The discriminatory "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" extortion scheme, promising preferred access to federal funding in exchange for submitting to the administration's demands over how to run the schools, was pitched to nine colleges and universities in a letter sent at the beginning of October. The 10-point plan demanded the schools' submission to the president's "gender ideology" obsession, effectively erasing trans identity in higher education, along with a cap on international undergraduate enrollment at 15% and banning the use of race or sex in hiring, among other diktats."
"Over the last week, the University of Arizona, the University of Southern California, Dartmouth College, and the University of Virginia joined Brown University, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania in rejecting the administration's academic shakedown."
""A number of the proposed federal recommendations deserve thoughtful consideration as our national higher education system could benefit from reforms that have been much too slow to develop," University of Arizona President Suresh Garimella said in a message to the campus community on Monday. But "principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding, and institutional independence are foundation""
Several major universities refused to sign a White House 10-point compact that conditioned preferred federal funding on compliance with specified administrative demands. The compact sought restrictions including erasing trans identity in higher education, a 15% cap on international undergraduate enrollment, and bans on using race or sex in hiring. Nine colleges and universities were targeted; Brown, MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Arizona, USC, Dartmouth, and UVA publicly rejected the offer. Vanderbilt and the University of Texas had not announced decisions by the imposed deadline. University leaders cited principles such as academic freedom and institutional independence.
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