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What Does The Letter Ask of Universities?<\/h2>\n

McMahon\u2019s letter asked colleges for answers to seven general areas that roughly line up with some of the administration\u2019s education priorities. These include making admissions criteria \u201ctransparent\u201d and ensuring they are \u201cmerit-based.\u201d It also called for colleges to promote free speech, but also prevent \u201cunruly and violent protestors.\u201d It slammed certain academic departments for prioritizing \u201cpolitical and social goals\u201d over academics, citing a contentious report<\/u> commissioned by Vanderbilt University that took issue with \u201cpoliticized\u201d scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology. In response, it asks universities to encourage \u201cintellectual pluralism\u201d and hire academics with \u201call relevant perspectives.\u201d The letter also asked colleges to ensure their students are earning \u201chigh-return\u201d degrees, fight to reduce grade inflation and protect academic programs from \u201cforeign influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Key Background<\/h2>\n

The Trump administration previously tried to get a smaller group of elite universities to sign onto a compact<\/u> promising many of the same reforms last October with much stricter terms and requirements. In the document, the administration asked the group of universities for reforms that included freezing tuition for the next five years and requiring universities with endowments worth more than $2 million to offer free tuition for students pursuing the \u201chard sciences.\u201d It also asked the group to commit to strict restrictions on international students\u2014capping international enrollment at 15% of the undergraduate population and a limit to only 5% from any one individual country, and requiring institutions to share \u201call known information\u201d about their international students with the Department of Homeland Security and State Department. The document directly tied access to federal research funding, grants, student loans and approval of student visas to cooperation with the terms. None of these requirements were listed in the letter sent on Monday. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first university to openly reject<\/u> the deal days after it was proposed.<\/p>\n

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Further Reading<\/h2>\n

Forbes<\/span>MIT \u2018Cannot Support\u2019 Trump\u2019s Compact\u2014First University To Reject Funding Deal<\/span>By Antonio Peque\u00f1o IV<\/span><\/small><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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