The White House is asking nine U.S. universities to sign an agreement pledging to uphold the Trump administration's higher education priorities, or risk losing out on preferred access to federal funding.

The demands are outlined in a nine-page document, title the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," that asks schools to freeze their tuition rate for five years, ban the use of sex and gender as factors in their admissions process, and cap their international student numbers, among other requirements.

Signatories also must commit to "transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas," according to the memo.

According to a White House official, a letter outlining the plan and a copy of the

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