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The Trump administration recently announced a new "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." The "deal" was initially offered to nine universities, and of those MIT and Brown have already ...

University of Virginia interim President Paul Mahoney announced on Friday that UVA was declining to sign on to the Trump administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, becoming ...

The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education strikes a more conciliatory tone than the Trump administration’s previous exchanges with universities, presenting itself as a method for ...

On December 15, five conservative higher education thinkers discussed the Trump administration’s October 2025 Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, framing it as a catalyst for an ...

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PROVIDENCE – Brown University President Christina H. Paxson has rejected the Trump Administration's proposed "compact" tying preferential access to federal funds to, as she described it, the ...

America’s universities—“crown jewels of the American system”—once represented the best aspects of the American character, including equal treatment, meritocracy, free speech, openness to debate, and ...

NEWPORT, R.I. - The 447 incoming students from all six branches of the U.S. armed forces, U.S. federal government agencies and 42 partner and allied nations stand during the U.S. Naval War College's ...

UA formally declined to sign the Trump administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence as written, saying it conflicts with the university’s core academic values. President Suresh Garimella announced ...

The University of Arizona (UA) and Vanderbilt University became the latest institutions not to sign the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” UA specifically ...