Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

The government should not use public funds to support a system that fails to serve the public good.

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Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

Historian Mark Bray was teaching courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university. Turning Point USA accused of him belonging to antifa, which he denies.

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What Civil Society Can Do to Beat Trumpism

People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.

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When Attacks on Free Speech Come From Left and Right

Readers respond to a column by Bret Stephens pointing out examples.

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Trump Asked Universities to Sign a Compact. Some See a Trap.

Trump officials want universities to sign on to conservative priorities to get special treatment. Some in higher education say agreeing would end academic freedom.

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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.

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Trump Says a Deal Is Close With Harvard

The agreement, if finalized, would follow months of grappling over federal dollars as the Trump administration seeks to cow the university.

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Athens Democracy Forum: Freedom of Speech in Academia Is Under Attack

Clashes on university campuses, and administrators’ failures when dealing with them, have triggered actions by some governments meant to limit what universities and their students can say and do.

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Health Department Moves to Block Harvard From Future Research Grants

The White House and Harvard University have struggled to negotiate an end to their monthslong dispute over the administration’s campaign to expunge “woke” ideology from campuses.

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Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.

The University of California, one of the Trump administration’s biggest targets so far, is in an uproar over how to respond to the president’s attacks. So is the rest of higher education.

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