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White House Offers Funding Edge to 9 Universities That Sign Campus Policy Compact

The proposal shifts a months-long pressure campaign into an incentive offer tied to campus policy changes.

FILE - Students walk past the "Great Dome" atop Building 10 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Mass, April 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
FILE - Passers-by walk and ride along a path on the campus of Brown University, in Providence, R.I., Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
FILE - Students cross the campus of Dartmouth College, March 5, 2024, in Hanover, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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Overview

  • The 10-page Compact for Academic Excellence promises priority access to federal grants, higher overhead payments when feasible, and White House engagement for signatories.
  • The letters went to Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania, USC, MIT, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Arizona, Brown, and the University of Virginia.
  • Key terms include a five-year tuition freeze, mandatory standardized tests for applicants, a 15% cap on international undergraduates with no single country over 5%, and adoption of government gender definitions for facilities and women’s sports.
  • Universities must foster a “vibrant marketplace of ideas,” consider restructuring units seen as suppressing conservative viewpoints, and undergo annual anonymous polling reviewed by the Justice Department, which would enforce penalties for violations.
  • The White House invited feedback with a reported Nov. 21 decision window, UT regents welcomed the opportunity, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom warned he would cut state funding to any California campus that signs.