"As set forth in the so-called Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, these include an oath to abide by the White House's biological theories of gender and to show respect for "conservative" (but not liberal or centrist) values. Framed as a question of who is first in line for federal funding, the compact warns that nonconforming universities will have to go their own way fiscally."
"Such threats have bite because about half of universities' $102 billion in annual research spending today flows from the federal budget. Federal Student Aid provides about $120.8 billion in grants, work-study programs, and loans to students. Federal regulation also shapes, mostly favorably until now, universities' financial environments and helps sustain their educational mission-via the tax code, the antidiscrimination regime of Title VI, and (as Harvard found out the painful way) the federal government's control over international students' presence."
The Trump administration sought to condition federal support on ideological compliance through a Compact requiring adherence to White House gender theories and deference to conservative values. Federal funding matters: roughly half of universities' $102 billion in annual research spending comes from federal sources, and Federal Student Aid supplies about $120.8 billion in grants, work-study, and loans. Federal regulation, tax policy, Title VI enforcement, and visa control significantly shape university finances and operations. Seven of nine targeted universities rejected the Compact, signaling expectations of continued political pressure and a shift toward reviving late-19th-century entrepreneurial, nonfederal university models.
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