After four universities rejected the Trump administration’s compact for higher education, the White House met Friday with a number of universities about the proposal. A White House official confirmed ...

President Trump’s college compact offer has fallen flat. As of Monday’s deadline to get back to the administration, at least six prominent universities have publicly rejected the deal, which offers ...

I t was not a given that the proffered Trump “compact” for colleges would be dead on arrival. When the administration offered its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” to nine ...

Nine universities were supposed to give feedback by the end of today, Oct. 20, on the Trump administration’s wide-ranging plan that would supposedly give them preferential treatment for funding if ...

The date by which nine colleges were asked to provide feedback to the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” has passed, but the compact remains a live ...

A walkway on Brown University’s campus in Providence, R.I., on March 17, 2025. Reporter The Israelis freed in the Gaza hostage deal, what to know about Trump’s funding ‘compact’ for colleges, and more ...

Mr. Rowan is the chief executive of Apollo Global Management. Last week the Trump administration sent letters to a group of presidents of universities proposing a set of principles that has come to be ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would have required sweeping changes ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology turned down the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” on Friday, according to multiple reports, becoming the first ...