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 ...

UA formally declined to sign the Trump administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence as written, saying it conflicts with the university’s core academic values. President Suresh Garimella announced ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

After MIT rejected President Trump's proposed Higher Education Compact, the president is extending the offer to all colleges and universities. President Trump is opening up his controversial higher ...

Higher education advocates say the compact equates to a loyalty oath and infringes on the academic freedoms that are inherent to many universities’ missions. Portland State University is among a ...

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud said the university would not sign President Donald Trump’s higher education compact in its “current form.” The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher ...

America’s universities—“crown jewels of the American system”—once represented the best aspects of the American character, including equal treatment, meritocracy, free speech, openness to debate, and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The five universities that were still weighing President Donald Trump's higher-education compact were asked to join a White House call Friday to discuss the proposed deal. By late ...