Pennsylvania Lawmakers Seek to Bar State-Funded Colleges From Signing Trump Compact

Pennsylvania lawmakers seek to bar state-funded colleges from signing Trump compact

Two Democratic state representatives said the agreement threatens institutions’ independence and cast their proposal as safeguarding academic freedom.

Federal funding is not worth Penn’s independence

Signing on to the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education offered by the Trump administration would end the school's ability to determine its own future.

Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence” Threatens University Independence.

(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s called the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” It is anything but. It asks the schools who received Wednesday’s letter to give up their academic freedom and adopt the right-wing partisan platform on education in exchange for preferred access to federal funding. Of course, the document points out (as it must) that “institutions of higher education are free to develop models and values other than those” in…

Trump Adminstration Asks MIT to Abandon Academic Freedom to Secure Funding

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/04/business/white-house-university-compact-mit/ The new conditions for federal funding the Trump administration offered to MIT put the school in a no-win situation, people on the Cambridge campus and throughout academia said Friday: Agree to the federal government’s terms and surrender some academic freedom, or refuse and risk further punishment. The White House’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in H…