Brown University declined the White House’s invitation to sign an agreement that would grant preferential funding in exchange for a slew of policy changes, like DEI bans and limits on international students.

The Ivy League school is the second college to rebuff President Donald Trump ’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rejected the proposal last week.

In a letter to administration officials on Wednesday, Brown President Christina Paxson wrote that she was worried that the compact, “by its nature and by various provisions would restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance.”

Paxson echoed concerns voiced by MIT President Sally Kornbluth last week, when she responded to the Trump administrat

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