The University of Pennsylvania announced this week they will not sign the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. ” Interim president J. Larry Jameson stated that Penn has provided “focused feedback” outlining areas of alignment and “substantive concerns.”

The compact offers funding advantages in exchange for policy changes that align with the administration’s priorities . Those conditions include a five-year tuition freeze for U.S. students, caps on international undergraduate enrollment, reinstating standardized testing in admissions, bans on the use of race and sex in hiring and admissions, adoption of a binary definition of gender for facilities and athletics, and restructuring or eliminating units viewed as hostile to conservative ideas.

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