white House Nine major universities have been asked to commit to the political priorities of President Donald Trump, which are in exchange for more favorable access to federal funds.
A document sent to universities encouraged them to adopt the vision of the White House for the complexes of America, which has a commitment to accept the government’s priorities on entry, women’s sports, free speeches, student discipline and college ability.
According to a letter sent to universities with compact, universities, including “adequate and meaningful federal grants” and “increased overhead payment”, “many positive benefits” to universities, which will provide “many positive benefits”. The letter calls it an active effort as the administration continues to investigate the violation of alleged civil rights in American complexes.
“Compact for academic excellence in higher education”, it asks universities to accept the government’s definition and apply it to campus bathrooms, locker rooms and women’s sports teams. It asks colleges to stop considering a wide range of race, gender and student demographics in the admission process and graduate applicants to take SAT or Act.
The 10-Page proposed agreement was sent to some of the most selected public and private universities on Wednesday: Vendorbult, Pennsylvania University, Dartmouth College, Southern California University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Texas, University of Texas, Arizona University, Brown University and University of virginiaIt was not clear how these schools were selected or why.
According to the letter, nine universities can become “early signators” and can be invited to provide feedback before the language is finalized. It asks for a decision till 21 November.
White House takes a new, incentive-based approach
The memo represents a change in strategy because the administration provides a reward – not only punishment – as an incentive to adopt Trump’s political wish list. Several demands led the mirrors made by his administration to the mirrors, which had reduced billions of dollars in federal funds for Harvard, Columbia and others. A federal judge overturned Harvard cuts in September, saying that the government had abolished its authority.
Many universities said that they were reviewing the compact and had no comments. A statement from the University of Virginia states that there was nothing to suggest why it was chosen. The interim chairman of the university gathered a group of administrators on Thursday to review the letter.
Leaders of the Texas system were “honored” that Austin Campus was chosen to be part of compact and its “potential funding benefits”, according to a statement by Kevin Altiff, Chairman of the Board of Regents. “Today we welcome us the new opportunity presented and we are eager to work with the Trump administration on it,” said Altiff.
Under the compact, international enrollment would have dominated 15% of the graduate student body of the college, and more than 5% cannot come from the same country. All universities invited to compact appear within the 15% range, although according to federal data, Dartmouth and USC are close to 14%. Many universities do not report breakdown by individual countries.
Most other American universities also fall within 15% cap, but are more than 120 more than Columbia University, Amori University and Boston University, federal data shows.
Some of the most broad commitments aim to promote conservative outlook. Universities Compact said that it would be to ensure that their campus is “lively market of ideas”, where no ideology is prominent. They must evaluate ideas between students and faculties to ensure that each department reflects the diverse mixture of ideas.
To fulfill this, it says that universities must take steps, including “institutional units, which are objectively punished, are brittle, and even promote violence against conservative ideas.”
The Israeli-Hamas War requires policies to combat protests in American premises last year. This asks for a commitment to prevent any disruption in classrooms or campus library and not to heights other students.
Complex signing premises will have to freeze tuition for American students for five years, and people with a regressive $ 2 million settlement cannot tuition all for students pursuing “hard science” programs.
Opponents see a threat to free speech
President of Ted Michelle American Council on Education, urged universities to reject the deal, stating that it violates the freedom of the campus and reduces free speech.
“It is not worth the compromise they have to make,” he said. “This is a Faustian deal.”
Compact criticized free speech groups, faculty associations and Larry Summers, a former Treasury Secretary and the Chairman of Harvard. Summer said that he believes that elite universities have lost their way, but they said that the compact “is trying to fix a watch with a hammer – sick imagination and protest.”
“Backlash against its crudeness will probably set the necessary improvement efforts back,” Summers said.
The terms of the deal will be implemented by the Department of Justice, in which violations will have to lose access to the benefits of compact for less than a year. The following violations competed for two years.
“Higher education institutions are free to develop models and values other than those given below,” Compact said, “If the institution makes choices to pursue federal benefits.”
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