MIT Says It Will Not Sign Trump Admin‘s Higher Education Compact

MIT is the first of the nine universities invited to join the compact to publicly reject it.
MIT Says It Will Not Sign Trump Admin‘s Higher Education Compact
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Mass., on May 25, 2025. Learner Liu/The Epoch Times
Bill Pan
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has declined to sign onto the Trump administration’s proposed compact, which would mandate campus reforms in exchange for preferential access to federal funding.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth announced the decision on Oct. 10 in a campus-wide letter attaching her formal response to Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who invited nine universities to sign the new agreement.