All but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding

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Seven of the nine universities that the White House initially approached about a plan to steer more federal money toward schools aligned with President Trump’s priorities have refused to endorse the proposal.

On Monday evening, an eighth signaled that it had reservations about it.

Only one, the University of Texas, suggested it might be open to signing on quickly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/politics/universities-funding-compact.html

 

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The University of Arizona rejected the Trump administration’s compact on Monday, joining Brown University, Dartmouth College, M.I.T., the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California and the University of Virginia.

 

[Diogenes]

Good. Pay down the debt instead.

 

[Hume]

Good. Pay down the debt instead.

No university should yield to Trump's mafia tactic of extortion.

 

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“Principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding and institutional independence are foundational and must be preserved,” the University of Arizona’s president, Suresh Garimella, wrote in an open letter on Monday, though he added that some of the White House’s ideas “deserve thoughtful consideration.”