The White House is expanding its outreach to universities on President Donald Trump’s higher education “compact,” inviting new schools to a Friday meeting after early invitees, including MIT and Brown, rejected the proposal that ties funding advantages to campus policy changes, according to administration officials and university statements, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Trump administration has asked Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Kansas, and Arizona State University to join a Friday meeting about the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” alongside earlier invitees Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, the University of Texas, and the University of Arizona, people familiar with the plan said.
The White House says the session is to gather input and refine language after several schools declined to sign.
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