Trump’s Compact for Academic Excellence Restores American Values to Higher Education

Originally published by Townhall

As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration has invited nine universities to lead a new campaign to revive American higher education. The proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” would include several of America’s leading public (the University of Arizona, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Virginia) and private institutions (Brown University, Dartmouth College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, and Vanderbilt University).

According to the Journal, the memo calls for these institutions to agree to “ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions; freeze tuition for five years; cap international undergrad enrollment at 15%; require that applicants take the SAT or a similar test; and quell grade inflation.”

The proposal also calls for the institutions themselves to be politically neutral on issues that do not directly affect their operations, to ensure a “vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus,” and to make changes to ensure that departments do not “purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”

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