Trump offers top universities funds if they boost conservative ideas
8 hours ago
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- Donald Trump offers nine top universities federal funding in exchange for advancing conservative ideas on campuses.
- Universities must agree to a 10-point 'compact', including promoting conservative ideas and banning race/sex factors in admissions.
- Other conditions include freezing tuition fees for five years and capping international undergraduate students at 15%.
- Critics argue the compact threatens free speech and academic freedom, with some conservatives also opposing it.
- The compact implicitly pressures all federally funded institutions to comply or lose funding.
- Nine universities were selected as 'good actors' for their commitment to 'higher-quality education'.
- Harvard is the only university to have sued the administration over the compact.
- Critics, including Harvard professor Cornell William Brooks, call the compact a 'weapon to exert command and control'.
- Ted Mitchell of the American Council on Education warns the implications on free speech are 'horrifying'.