The compact comes with steep penalties if colleges don’t comply.

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Oakwood University supports the Trump administration’s controversial compact for higher education that would require signatories to make changes to their policies in order to receive a potential edge in federal funding, Religion News Service (RNS) reported .

The historically Black university in Alabama wrote a Nov. 18 letter to the Education Department about its interest in the compact. Oakwood is the second HBCU to show interest in signing on. Like the other HBCU, Saint Augustine’s University , Oakwood officials say the compact needs to change for them to actually sign it.

Of concern for the HBCUS are provisions that woul

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