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The White House has advanced a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” offering preferential access to certain federal funds and benefits to universities that accept a slate of ...

The date by which nine colleges were asked to provide feedback to the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” has passed, but the compact remains a live ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about human rights and leadership in a global context. Today, this model is being tested as never before by the federal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marybeth Gasman writes about racism, philanthropy, HBCUs & faculty. Faculty and higher education leaders have condemned the ...

Re “Academia Is Broken. Trump’s ‘Compact’ for Universities Can Help Fix It,” by Marc Rowan (Opinion guest essay, Oct. 16): We write in opposition to Mr. Rowan’s essay about President Trump’s “Compact ...

A walkway on Brown University’s campus in Providence, R.I., on March 17, 2025. Reporter The Israelis freed in the Gaza hostage deal, what to know about Trump’s funding ‘compact’ for colleges, and more ...

The Trump administration’s new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is a trap. Presented last week to a group of nine universities that doesn’t yet include Stanford, the compact ...

Mr. Rowan is the chief executive of Apollo Global Management. Last week the Trump administration sent letters to a group of presidents of universities proposing a set of principles that has come to be ...

The nine universities that were sent the Trump administration’s new deal for higher ed are under increasing pressure to reject the compact. Multiple major associations representing institutions and ...

An agreement the Trump administration floated this month to nine universities asks them to conform to standards around admissions, hiring and student life in exchange for preferential access to ...

For more than 80 years, the system of higher education in the United States has partnered with the federal government to produce the best science, technology and scholarship in the world. Competing ...