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White House Offers Funding Edge to Colleges That Sign 10-Point Compact

Preferential grants would hinge on mandated shifts across admissions, campus speech rules, foreign-student enrollment.

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)
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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)
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Overview

  • The administration sent the 10-page compact on Oct. 1 to Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Penn, USC, MIT, UT Austin, the University of Arizona, Brown, and the University of Virginia, offering priority access to grants and White House engagement to signatories.
  • The proposal requires a five-year tuition freeze, bans considering race or sex in admissions and hiring, mandates standardized tests, targets grade inflation, and applies the administration’s gender definition to facilities and women’s sports.
  • International undergraduates would be capped at 15% of total enrollment with no more than 5% from any single country, and colleges would be asked to share foreign-student records with DHS and the State Department upon request.
  • Compliance would be policed through annual audits and Justice Department review, with penalties including at least a one-year loss of benefits that can extend to two years for repeat violations, and some reports indicate funds could be clawed back after breaches.
  • Initial reaction included the University of Texas System chair welcoming UT Austin’s inclusion as other schools declined comment or said they are reviewing, while higher-education leaders warned of free-speech concerns and potential legal challenges.