MIT rejects White House offer of federal funding for supporting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The government's proposal, sent to nine universities in early October, would require the institutions to stop considering factors related to gender, ethnicity, race and other factors when admitting students, among other stipulations, if they wanted to receive federal funding.
50% : The campaign has seen mixed success, with some univerities entering into negotiations with Trump while others have remained defiant.
50% : Trump led an unprecedented crackdown on elite university Harvard, accusing it of liberal bias and of failing to protect its Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests last year.
50% : Last month, Trump said his administration was close to reaching a $500 million financial settlement with Harvard under which the elite academic institution would operate trade schools.
49% : "Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
45% : " Trump has led an assault on US higher education institutions since taking office, demanding they bring their policies in line with conservative views or lose federal funding that forms the backbone of the US academic research system.
33% : The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became the first university to reject a White House offer of federal funding yesterday (10 October), tied to aligning its policies with President Donald Trump's conservative agenda.

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