PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump's alma mater, has refused to sign the administration's preferential funding proposal, becoming the third university to do so, according to Inside Higher Ed.

Brown University rejected the deal on Wednesday. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) refused to sign it last week.

The deal was initially offered to just nine universities, Penn being one of them, but the administration opened it up to all U.S. colleges and universities earlier this week. The other six schools the compact was initially offered to have yet to say whether they plan to sign or not.

The compact asks colleges and universities, among many things, to voluntarily agree to do away with departments "that purposefully punish, belittle

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