University of Virginia won't join White House's compact for colleges

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "A contractual arrangement predicating assessment on anything other than merit will undermine the integrity of the vital, sometimes lifesaving, research and further erode confidence in American higher education," Mahoney wrote in a note to Education Secretary Linda McMahon and two other administration officials.
54% : For example, a school with special expertise in research involving a specific type of cancer could, under the provisions, be eliminated from funding for that research unless it signed the compact.
53% : The proposal promised special funding for schools that met specific demands.
48% : In exchange for the special funding considerations, schools would have to agree to provisions including tuition freezes, caps on international students, the elimination of both race and sex as factors in admissions decisions, and the promotion of conservative views on campus.
17% : You Might Also Like: UPenn and USC join Brown and MIT in rejecting Trump's proposal for funding preferences They voiced concerns that it set up an illegal two-tiered system for doling out federal funding, allowing schools that signed on to the deal to escape merit-based consideration in federal grants.

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