Trump Asked Universities to Sign a Compact. Some See a Trap.

Trump officials want universities to sign on to conservative priorities to get special treatment. Some in higher education say agreeing would end academic freedom.

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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.

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Columbia and Penn Made Trump Deals. More Universities Could Be Next.

Trump officials hope deals with two Ivy League schools create a template that others, including Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Cornell and Northwestern, will follow.

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Penn Agrees to Limit Participation of Transgender Athletes

In a deal with the Trump administration, the University of Pennsylvania will not allow transgender women to participate in women’s sports.

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Trump Administration Demands Records From Penn on Foreign Ties

The Education Department accused the school of filing inaccurate reports, adding to the growing list of elite schools it has targeted over foreign funding disclosures.

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Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why?

President Trump has set his sights on defunding colleges, singling out some of the world’s wealthiest schools in what critics say is an attack on academic freedom.

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Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats

As the Trump administration threatens universities, the former president suggested schools shouldn’t be intimidated. But he also offered a critique of campus culture, saying it had too often shut out opposing voices.

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Trump Administration Set to Pause $510 Million for Brown University

The administration has now targeted five schools’ federal funding as part of a pledge to combat what it considers to be antisemitism on university campuses.

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Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard

The move follows the cancellation of roughly $400 million in funding for Columbia, and suspension of $175 million for the University of Pennsylvania.

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How Colleges Are Surveilling Students Now

Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Experts say it’s a new frontier in campus security that could threaten civil liberties.

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