The Trump administration is calling on nine top universities in the United States to sign a 10-point ideological compact, to be able to get preferential access to federal funding, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Some of the measures include demands that schools make their campuses a “more welcoming environment for conservatives,” they cap international undergrad enrollment and ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions.
There has already been backlash on the memo, with Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, warning that the “implications for free speech are horrifying.”
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