Brown settled with the Trump administration earlier this year, but the compact doesn’t offer the same protections, the university president wrote in her rejection of the deal. Wolterk/iStock/Getty Images

Citing multiple concerns, Brown University on Wednesday rejected an invitation to join the “ Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education ” that the Trump administration proposed.

The compact, initially sent to nine institutions, would require universities to make a number of far-reaching changes, including suppressing criticism of conservatives on campus. Of the original nine, Brown is now the second to reject the deal after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The administration has promised preferential treatment on federal funding for those that sign on, though the d

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