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White House sets hiring, foreign enrolment terms for colleges to get funding advantage: Report
The White House offers preferential federal funding to nine universities in exchange for adopting policies on admissions, free speech, and tuition freezes, aiming for campus ideological balance.
- On Wednesday, the White House sent letters to nine universities asking them to sign a 10-page compact promising priority access to substantial federal grants.
- The administration framed the offer as urging schools to adopt President Donald Trump's agenda for preferential funding after a federal judge overturned cuts at Harvard.
- Among its demands, the compact calls for banning race or sex in hiring and admissions, capping international undergraduate enrollment at 15%, a five-year tuition freeze, and requiring SAT or ACT tests.
- Higher-Education groups denounced the compact as government overreach, with Ted Mitchell and California Gov. Gavin Newsom warning of lost funding as several universities review it.
- Decisions are due by Nov. 21, and the Justice Department would enforce penalties like losing benefits for at least a year, marking a strategic shift toward rewarding compliance for universities that sign.
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