I t was not a given that the proffered Trump “compact” for colleges would be dead on arrival. When the administration offered its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” to nine ...

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 ...

University of Virginia interim President Paul Mahoney announced Friday that the University has provided comments on the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. The compact, which ...

Brown University has rejected the Trump administration’s proposed compact, which would have required the university to make changes to its campus policies in exchange for an advantage in receiving ...

A walkway on Brown University’s campus in Providence, R.I., on March 17, 2025. Reporter The Israelis freed in the Gaza hostage deal, what to know about Trump’s funding ‘compact’ for colleges, and more ...

The nine universities that were sent the Trump administration’s new deal for higher ed are under increasing pressure to reject the compact. Multiple major associations representing institutions and ...

When the Trump administration proposed a compact with nine institutions last week, requesting sweeping reforms in exchange for preferential treatment, most leaders of the impacted campuses had little ...

With all due respect to summer, fall might be the juiciest season, especially here in Canada. It’s when some of our heartiest, tastiest produce comes into its own. Exhibit A: apples – with what feels ...

The Trump administration has floated the draft of an agreement with several high-profile colleges — a sort of deal in which the universities would make a series of commitments in admissions, speech on ...

Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender. By Michael C. Bender The White House on Wednesday sent letters to ...