The battle for academic freedom and institutional sovereignty in higher education continues to play out as another university ...

The schools said no to the Trump administration’s offer of federal funding preferences in exchange for complying with certain ...

The Vanderbilt Faculty Senate voted on a resolution asking the university to reject a recent White House compact.

Letters were sent to nine universities, asking them to agree to a series of demands in return for expanded access to funding.

The latest effort to coerce colleges and universities is a 10-page “compact” that the federal government sent to nine ...

Brown University became the second of nine universities to reject the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” Wednesday, following the Massachusetts Institute of ...

MIT became the first institution to reject the offer, citing concerns that scientific funding should be based on merit.

Students at Brown, MIT, Dartmouth, other elite schools on Wednesday sent a joint statement pressuring their universities not to sign Trump’s compact as well.

Nine universities were asked to give “limited, targeted feedback” on the proposal by today. So far, six have rejected the ...