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The Washington Post <\/em>caught wind of these latest ideas through two anonymous White House officials.<\/p>\n Brendan Smialowski\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n The Trump administration may be moving away from using individual investigations to try to force colleges into compliance with the president\u2019s agenda and instead encourage compliance by giving institutions that demonstrate adherence to his policies a competitive advantage in obtaining research funding, according to The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n The new plan, which Post <\/em>reporters heard about from two anonymous White House officials, would change the grant-application process and give a leg up to institutions that conform to President Donald Trump\u2019s agenda regarding admissions, hiring and other campus policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n If the plan takes effect, the Trump administration will no longer have to go after universities one by one through investigations and corresponding penalties, but rather can induce compliance from hundreds of institutions at once.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s time to effect change nationwide, not on a one-off basis,\u201d one official told the Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n The current award-selection process for federal research grants is based primarily on scientific merit. Critics say that overriding such a standard would be a demonstrable example of executive overreach and a violation of academic freedom.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t imagine a university in America that would be supportive of this,\u201d said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Washington Post caught wind of these latest ideas through two anonymous White House officials. Brendan Smialowski\/AFP\/Getty Images The Trump administration may be moving away from using individual investigations to try to force colleges into compliance with the president\u2019s agenda and instead encourage compliance by giving institutions that demonstrate adherence to his policies a competitive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[15098,4310,15099,4639,12735,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-24929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-allocation","9":"tag-attempt","10":"tag-capitulation","11":"tag-grant","12":"tag-tie","13":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}