The Trump administration is finding that getting some of the country’s most prestigious universities to be more politically diverse is a heavy lift – even when the schools are offered funding priority.

Dartmouth College over the weekend joined the University of Virginia (UVA) in rejecting the Trump administration’s offer of preferential funding in exchange for agreeing to overhaul or abolish departments that oppose conservative ideas and other far-reaching stipulations.

UVA and the Ivy League school in Hanover, New Hampshire, are two of nine schools approached by the administration with the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have also rejected the offer as well as Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and the U

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