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W e write as scholars of academic freedom to respond to the proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” We are politically diverse and do not share common views about the wisdom of ...

President Trump’s college compact offer has fallen flat. As of Monday’s deadline to get back to the administration, at least six prominent universities have publicly rejected the deal, which offers ...

A White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” landed in Dartmouth’s inbox earlier this month, alongside letters to eight other universities, including Brown University, the ...

Seven of the nine universities originally invited to sign the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” have rejected it, and now President Trump has ...

Multiple colleges are rejecting a compact the Trump administration sent to nine universities at the beginning of October that guaranteed funding advantages if the institutions agreed to certain policy ...

The Department of Education will struggle to find broad acceptance of a new iteration of the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education without true partnership with the sector. Rumors of a ...