The Trump administration has used US colleges to sign a deal on certain terms in order to get preferential access to federal funds, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

As per Trump’s 10-point memo, the colleges have been asked to prohibit the use of race and sex in hiring and admission decisions, capping international undergraduate enrollment at 15%, freezing tuition for five years, requiring standardised testing, promoting a “politically neutral and open intellectual environment" and quelling grade inflation.

An initial round of nine schools was being asked to sign the wide-ranging accord, including MIT, Brown, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, USC, University of Texas, and University of Arizona. The administration promised that schools that sign the deal would receiv

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