MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "Any university that refuses this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform higher education isn't serving its students or their parents - they're bowing to radical, left-wing bureaucrats," Huston said.
51% : "The premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone," Kornbluth said in her letter, which was posted to an MIT website.
47% : White House spokesperson Liz Huston said in a statement the Trump administration was only calling for universities to end discrimination.
45% : MIT was the first university to refuse to support the White House memo, which followed Republican President Donald Trump's efforts to use financial pressure to force some of the country's top institutions of higher learning to submit to unprecedented control over who and what they teach.
43% : Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite US universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.
41% : Since Trump took office in January, his White House has targeted what it deems liberal-leaning institutions in various fields and tried to withhold funding from colleges and universities over issues such as pro-Palestinian protests against US ally Israel's war in Gaza, transgender policies, climate initiatives and diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
18% : The administration's threats to cut off federal funding to schools such as Harvard University for allegedly favoring "radical left" policies have hit legal roadblocks.

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