Most of the nine universities who were required to meet a list of commitments that align with the Trump administration’s political priorities in exchange for preferential access to federal funds have indicated they are not planning on signing by Monday’s deadline, NPR reported.
After MIT was the first university to reject the offer earlier this month, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that all colleges could sign on to the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, not only the nine that were sent the letter.
But afterwards, Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California all sent out statements “respectfully” declining the offer.
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