Brown University became the second of nine schools to decline the Trump administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.
In an Oct. 15 letter to the White House, Brown President Christina H. Paxson said the agreement has “no safeguards for protecting academic speech” and would “restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance,” impeding her school’s ability to fulfill its mission as a research institution.
The compact offers financial incentives like preferred consideration for federal grants and looser restrictions on research overhead costs if the school promises to eliminate preferential treatment by race, freeze tuition rates for five years, require SAT scores in student applications, limit undergraduate admission of foreign students to 15 percent, maintain a policy of institutional neutrality on political and social issues, and accept all transfer credits from military members and veterans….
Brown University Declines to Sign Trump Admin’s Compact for Preferred Federal Funding
