The Trump 'Compact' Tells Colleges to Protect Speech and Freeze Tuition
Podcast: WSJ Opinion: Potomac WatchPublished On: Tue Oct 07 2025
Description: Nine schools, including MIT and the University of Texas at Austin, are offered preferential access to federal dollars if they sign a compact with the Trump Administration, agreeing to specific commitments on standardized testing, admissions, campus speech, grade inflation, tuition, and more. Are these useful reforms to higher ed? Is this federal overreach? Or is it perhaps both? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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