White House Floats New Rules For Colleges to Get Funding Edge

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

(Bloomberg) -- The Trump Administration sent letters to a group of top-tier universities Wednesday laying out a proposed compact that would cap international students, ban the use of race or sex in hiring, and require standardized testing as part of the admissions process in exchange for preferential access to federal funding.

The effort — labeled the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” — says universities that agree to the terms will enjoy benefits including access to federal student loans, grants and contracts as well as research funding, approval of visas for foreign scholars, and preferential treatment under the tax code.

The proposal is the latest effort by President Donald Trump to reshape and reorient higher education toward his policy and ideological priorities. Earlier this week, the president suggested Harvard University — a top target of his effort — was close to finalizing a $500 million settlement with the administration that would see the school fund trade programs.

The memo Wednesday outlining the new administration demands was sent to Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to a White House official.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-floats-rules-colleges-032033579.html

Sounds like extortion to me.

[walkingman]

1. The lecturing universities, the military, the countries of the world

by a President and his administration that doesn't have enough sense to come out of the rain is crazy.

[AZJonnie]

2. Have these freaking morons never heard of SAT (and similar) tests?

They already use standardized tests as part of admissions

Also, who the fuck does this asshole think he is? What am I saying, he didn't think of any of it, it was all written out in Project 2025

[Lonestarblue]

3. More of Trump's extortion of universities.

Here are a few more requirements that give Trump and his administration power over how universities are run. I’m sure that academic freedom to Trump and Project 2025 idiots means that if universities reject hiring conservative conspiracy theorists or teaching conservative notions that women and minorities are inferior to white males, the DOJ can come after them again.

—Adopting policies protecting academic freedom and abolishing “institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas”

—Maintaining “single-sex spaces” in bathrooms and locker rooms

The compact also says that adherence to the principles will be subject to review by the Department of Justice, and that violations would result in a loss of access to federal benefits for no less than two years.”