The Trump administration has urged nine top US universities, including UT Austin and MIT, to sign a \u201cCompact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education\u201d to secure priority access to federal funding. The compact demands tuition freezes, limits on international students, bans on DEI policies, and restrictions on political expression. Universities face funding risks if they refuse, raising concerns about academic freedom and institutional governance under new federal conditions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Trump administration has urged nine top US universities, including UT Austin and MIT, to sign a \u201cCompact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education\u201d to secure priority access to federal funding. The compact demands tuition freezes, limits on international students, bans on DEI policies, and restrictions on political expression. Universities face funding risks if they… Read More »Trump\u2019s campus compact: Top US universities under pressure; academic freedom at risk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}