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White House Offers Funding Preference to 9 Elite Universities That Adopt 10-Point Campus Policy Compact

Universities face a Nov. 21 response window as California threatens state cuts to signers.

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)
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Students walk past the Faye and Joe Wyatt Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, Nov. 27, 2023.

Overview

  • Letters sent Oct. 1 invite Vanderbilt, Penn, Dartmouth, USC, MIT, UT Austin, Arizona, Brown and Virginia to sign the 'Compact for Academic Excellence' in exchange for priority access to federal grants and White House engagement.
  • The proposal demands a five-year tuition freeze, reinstated SAT/ACT requirements, a 15% cap on international undergraduates, bans on considering race or sex in admissions and hiring, and adoption of binary gender rules for facilities and women's sports.
  • Universities would be required to promote a 'vibrant marketplace of ideas,' restructure units seen as hostile to conservative viewpoints, adopt institutional neutrality policies and curb disruptive demonstrations.
  • Compliance monitoring would include annual anonymous polling of students, faculty and staff, with Justice Department enforcement and loss of compact benefits for at least one year after violations.
  • Initial reactions vary, with the University of Texas System welcoming the opportunity, several schools reviewing the offer, and California Governor Gavin Newsom vowing to cut state funding from any campus that signs.