University of Arizona declines to sign onto Trump administration 'compact'

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters

The University of Arizona on Monday cited academic freedom as it became the seventh elite college to decline to sign onto a Trump administration proposal that offered nine of them preferential consideration for federal funding in exchange for agreeing to a set of policies.

Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas at Austin have yet to announce whether they will sign the proposal, for which the administration gave a Monday deadline.

The proposal has been rejected by Brown University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Southern California, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, and Dartmouth College.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/university-arizona-declines-sign-onto-trump-administration-compact-2025-10-20/

[SheltieLover]

1. Good!

[BaronChocula]

2. This is what a tipping point looks like

We were all at least disappointed watching ivies capitulate to the turd reich early on. One could give the benefit of the doubt since at that time, there was little precedent for educational institutions having to fight back against those types of threats. Of course that capitulation emboldened the regime to the point where they overplayed their hand and now that they're demanding conditions of nine universities in order to receive continued funding. That blanket threat just enabled those universities to stand together in saying FUCK OFF. Two schools have yet to respond.

It makes sense that this will impact how other bodies like high-profile law firms (maybe) respond to like threats from magaworld. "United we stand" still has meaning. No doubt the showing at this past weekend's protests are a little gas in the engine of resistance.

[byronius]

3. I'm proud of my alma mater.

[Mosby]

4. The U of A an elite college?

Please.

University of Arizona Rankings
#127 in National Universities

ASU is ranked higher at #117.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-arizona-1083/overall-rankings

[róisín_dubh]

5. Vanderbilt caved...

According to friends who teach there.

[Old Testament Libera]

6. Go Wildcats!

I was hoping they would not accept. Good job!

[Javaman]

7. I live in Austin. I fully expect UT to sign on.

it's has a very conservative board and is the lap dog of asshole abbott.