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The Trump 'Compact' Tells Colleges to Protect Speech and Freeze Tuition

The Trump 'Compact' Tells Colleges to Protect Speech and Freeze Tuition

Update: 2025-10-07
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Nine schools, including MIT and the University of Texas at Austin, are offered preferential access to federal dollars if they sign a compact with the Trump Administration, agreeing to specific commitments on standardized testing, admissions, campus speech, grade inflation, tuition, and more. Are these useful reforms to higher ed? Is this federal overreach? Or is it perhaps both?


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The Trump 'Compact' Tells Colleges to Protect Speech and Freeze Tuition

The Trump 'Compact' Tells Colleges to Protect Speech and Freeze Tuition

Paul Gigot, The Wall Street Journal