AUSTIN, Texas — The Trump administration is asking nine universities to sign a "compact" in exchange for preferential access to federal funding, and the University of Texas at Austin is one of those schools.

The document asks universities to stick to strict gender roles and asks that no more than 15% of a university's undergraduate population participate in the Student Visa Exchange Program.

It also asks the universities to freeze tuition rates for the next five years and bans factors like race, nationality and political views from being considered in admissions.

UT Austin Professor of Education David DeMatthews calls this a "new strategy" from the administration to influence what happens in higher education.

"I'd say it's relatively unprecedented to see something like this come

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