AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- The Trump administration is offering the University of Texas at Austin preferential funding treatment if it agrees to sign a compact that will change certain processes on campus.

The compact was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, and it is called the, “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education."

The agreement would force the schools to not factor in diversity, equity, and inclusion policies when hiring staff or admitting students. The compact also calls on the universities to freeze their tuition rates for five years and limit the number of foreign students with a visa to no more than 15% of the undergraduate student body. It also said no more than 5% of those students can be from one country.

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