A White House proposal for special funding treatment crossed a line for several schools. Some say it feels like a turning point in the federal government’s battle with higher education. By Alan ...

When four states between 2015 and 2021 stopped allowing parents to opt their children out of receiving routine vaccines ...

The battle for academic freedom and institutional sovereignty in higher education continues to play out as another university has rejected a White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology turned down the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” on Friday, according to multiple reports, becoming the first ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology publicly rejected an offer from the Trump administration Friday that would've granted the university preferential treatment for federal funding in exchange ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became the first university to reject the Trump administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," which would have given it ...

Multiple colleges are rejecting a compact the Trump administration sent to nine universities at the beginning of October that guaranteed funding advantages if the institutions agreed to certain policy ...

An agreement the Trump administration floated this month to nine universities asks them to conform to standards around admissions, hiring and student life in exchange for preferential access to ...

MIT President Sally Kornbluth is telling President Trump's administration that the prestigious college in Cambridge, Massachusetts will not be signing on to the White House's "Compact for Academic ...