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The University of Virginia and Dartmouth College have become the latest higher ed institutions to publicly reject the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher…

UVA officials told the Trump administration that they seek no special treatment. Daxia Rojas/AFP via Getty Images On a day of campus demonstrations urging officials to…

After four universities rejected the Trump administration’s compact for higher education, the White House met Friday with some universities about the proposal.  A White House official…

Four of the nine universities initially asked to sign have rejected the document. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | Jumping Rocks/Universal Images Group/Getty Images…

Brown settled with the Trump administration earlier this year, but the compact doesn’t offer the same protections, the university president wrote in her rejection of the…

Kornbluth said “the premise of the document is inconsistent” with MIT’s values.  Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images | Nate Hovee/iStock/Getty…

For more than 80 years, the system of higher education in the United States has partnered with the federal government to produce the best science, technology…

Sticks are bad, but sometimes corruption through carrots is worse. The Trump administration – after having brutally cut federal funding earlier this year – is now…

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…

The Trump administration has asked nine universities to sign on to a proposed compact, mandating certain changes in exchange for preferential treatment on federal funding. First…