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A compact with conditions
Eliminate consideration of race, sex, or other identity factors in admissions, hiring, and financial aid;
Bar transgender individuals from using restrooms or participating in sports that align with their gender identity;
Cap the number of international undergraduate students; and
Adopt “institutional neutrality,” forbidding faculty or staff from publicly commenting on political or social issues.
Academic rebellion
What’s at stake
Foundations that must be preserved
The cost of silence
America’s most prestigious universities now find themselves standing at a crossroads, between federal funding and intellectual freedom, between compliance and conscience. The Trump administration’s proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education has forced a reckoning unlike any seen in recent academic memory. What was framed as a pact to restore “merit and accountability” in higher education has instead ignited a rebellion among institutions that helped build the very foundations of American innovation.At the heart of the controversy lies a Faustian bargain: access to preferential research funding in exchange for adherence to sweeping federal mandates that critics say would muzzle dissent, curtail
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