The Trump administration is urging a group of nine universities to sign a 10-point compact that would have sweeping implications on campus in exchange for a funding advantage in federal grants.

The 10-point memo, titled the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” aims to make broad changes to a school's culture, hiring and admissions processes and foreign student enrollment.

Among the demands are reforms to the way race or ethnicity are used in admission and hiring practices, institutional neutrality, student grading and demanding that transgender women be excluded from women's locker rooms and sports teams.

The compact calls for a “vibrant marketplace of ideas” and for schools to revise “government structures” or other systems that the White House says stifle free speech

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