President Trump's compact aimed at several schools, including Vanderbilt University, is stirring up conversations as the previous deadline approached. The proposal, called the "Compact for Academic ...

University of Virginia interim President Paul Mahoney announced on Friday that UVA was declining to sign on to the Trump administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, becoming ...

On December 15, five conservative higher education thinkers discussed the Trump administration’s October 2025 Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, framing it as a catalyst for an ...

The Trump administration recently announced a new "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." The "deal" was initially offered to nine universities, and of those MIT and Brown have already ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was the first university to reject President Trump's original Compact for Higher Education. Now, the administration is taking a second run at the proposal.

The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education strikes a more conciliatory tone than the Trump administration’s previous exchanges with universities, presenting itself as a method for ...

The University of Arizona (UA) and Vanderbilt University became the latest institutions not to sign the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” UA specifically ...

Seven of the nine universities originally invited to sign the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” have rejected it, and now President Trump has ...

NEWPORT, R.I. - The 447 incoming students from all six branches of the U.S. armed forces, U.S. federal government agencies and 42 partner and allied nations stand during the U.S. Naval War College's ...

US President Donald Trump’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education has triggered an unprecedented standoff between the federal government and some of the nation’s top universities. The ...

Only three universities agreed to the higher education compact, which offered benefits in federal funding in exchange for major policy and administrative changes at schools. Alina Naumova/iStock/Getty ...

Arizona State University was not asked to join the Trump administration's compact, but has offered federal officials ideas on higher education. The White House proposed a compact to universities ...