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With deadline looming 4 of 9 universities reject Trumps pact to remake higher ed

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/10/with-deadline-looming-4-of-9-universities-reject-trumps-compact-to-remake-higher-ed/
62•Bender•1h ago

Comments

andrewflnr•1h ago
So is that 4 of 9 so far, with the others not answering yet? 5 still deliberating vs 5 bent knees are two very different stories.
quickthrowman•46m ago
None of the 9 colleges have accepted so far, according to this article that was linked at the bottom of the article we are discussing: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/no-takers-yet-white-hous...

They should have noted this in the article we are discussing since it does change the story, as you said.

bookofjoe•1h ago
Up to 6 now: MIT Brown Penn University of Virginia Dartmouth University of Southern California

No response yet (due tomorrow BTW) from: Vanderbilt University of Texas University of Arizona

aliljet•1h ago
Having casually attended one of these schools, I'm so confused about why they are even in this group. What is making this group of schools best suited for this sort of blackmail?
patagurbon•23m ago
It does seem fairly arbitrary. It’s not a list of schools with big labs, since Hopkins or Berkeley aren’t there. It doesn’t seem to be private vs state schools, it’s not Ivy League or blue state only.

One potential reason to select a diverse set would be to point to a few who may be forced to accept by their state governments as examples to paint the refusers in a negative light.

atomicnumber3•1h ago
I'm glad to see states fighting back, finally. I was never really too sure if, from a purely academic point of view, I thought a stronger federal government ("united we stand, divided we fall") or more independent states were a better "system".

But I think the way the US is set up (districting, gerrymandering, redlined, electoral college, etc) makes it far too easy for fringe beliefs to take over and dictate policy. So having states simply being more independent puts up far more barriers to all of us just losing our freedom.

I live in IL. (Not near Chicago). My kids public school only gets about 15% of its funding from the federal govt. We could just finally stop having our stupid flat income tax and make up the shortfall. It might set back the universal preschool system, perhaps (which would be a tragedy but better than complete destruction).

Meanwhile, schools might not even exist in many other states if federal funding disappeared.

quotemstr•8m ago
> states fighting back

Fight back against _what_? Look: our universities really do need reform, and the perceptive observer should be able to see that independent of political opinions. The current administration may be an imperfect vehicle for reform, but I don't see anyone else trying.

In particular, universities need to return to pursuing truth. Not every department at every school has abandoned the goal of seeking pure knowledge, granted, but the reality is that many have oriented themselves towards building a "better world" by preaching (there is no other word) the "right" ideas well past the point where they intersect with the real world.

It is damn hard for me to muster sympathy for the universities. I recall that they spent a decade demanding statements of ideological affiliation as a precondition of hiring, that they pollute the epistemic commons by suppressing inconvenient facts, and that they rationale injustice against individuals by gesturing at universal, cosmic justice that they claim they alone have the power to discern.

silisili•7m ago
I've always thought more state power was probably a good thing - the US is simply so huge and diverse in thought and religion that you'll always be upsetting a large swath of people no matter what you decide.

That said, as a fly on the wall, my obvious observation from people at large is a direct correlation between how much power states should have and whether or not they belong to the party in power. So it's definitely worth the exercise of seeing if you'd feel the same way still if your exact clone ran the federal government.

FridayoLeary•41m ago
These are the main policy points[1]

1.Equality in admissions- with certain exceptions, universities have to publish and commit to objective criteria for accepting new students.

2.Marketplace of ideas and civil discourse - a bit vague, but basically calling for non violent exchanges of opinions and ideas, specifically not discriminating against conservatives, who frankly are a significant minority at universities.

3.Nondiscrimination in faculty and administrative hiring

4.Institutional neutrality - frankly i'm not sure what that's supposed to mean

5.Student learning -Signatories must make certain “grade integrity” commitments, including neither “inflat[ing]” nor “deflat[ing]” grades for any “non-academic reason.”

6.Student equality -Signatories must treat students “as individuals and not on the basis of their immutable characteristics, with due exceptions for sex-based privacy, safety, and fairness”

7.Financial responsibility - a raft of ideas aimed at protecting students

8. More restrictions on foreign student admissions etc.

9.enforcement

[1]i got all my information from this article:https://www.ropesgray.com/en/insights/alerts/2025/10/white-h...

sidle_arount•23m ago
These all sound like reasonable standards for universities to meet.

The only unnecessary part is explicitly calling out conservative opinions, some of which will have no place in some university subjects, e.g. a geology student insisting the Earth is 6000 years old.

nine_zeros•14m ago
These are all reasonable standards - if they came from Congress. They are not reasonable standards if they came for a fickle and corrupt mafia at gunpoint.

The entire no kings protest is exactly about that - executive overreach overriding will of the people and causing irresponsible harm.

sidle_arount•10m ago
I'm not sure I follow your argument. If these would be considered reasonable standards if exactly the same were proposed by Congress, then how would they cause harm if implemented on request of the Executive?
qcnguy•6m ago
They are reasonable standards which is why it says a lot they're all rejecting them.

There's really no point trying to reform universities. They're completely dominated by ideological extremists who will go to the wall to preserve their academic freedom to be racist, sexist and full of intellectual fraud. Society doesn't need them either. The few professions that really need extensive technical training can run their own schools. The research is best done in corporate labs. The world doesn't need millions of P-hacked social studies papers.

ternaryoperator•3m ago
[delayed]
brianwawok•39m ago
Many schools without huge endowments are in a tough spot, they really need the federal money but it goes against everything that they have fought for, for a very long time. I don’t envy those having to make these decisions.
hypeatei•34m ago
We've observed what happens when you cave to Trump and his goons: they will want more and turn on you anyway. ABC settled and paid Trump $16M just for his FCC chair to later threaten their license over Jimmy Kimmel's comments. I'm glad these universities have a spine and aren't signing onto this attempt at an authoritarian takeover of higher education.
ternaryoperator•21m ago
Univ of Virginia announced yesterday they would no sign. So now it’s five universities.
Levitz•10m ago
>“If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding—including Cal grants—instantly,” California Governor Gavin Newsom wrote after the compact was released. “California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom.”

I don't think this is meant to be funny but it definitely is.