Campus activist groups are banding together to fight against President Donald Trump’s proposed “ compact ” with universities in which they would receive priority access to federal funding in exchange for pledging support for aspects of the president’s political agenda.

The Sunrise Movement on Wednesday said that students and workers at the universities who have been invited by the Trump administration to sign the compact have “already gathered thousands of petition signatures” urging school administrators to reject it, and they are “planning coordinated campus protests in the coming weeks” to keep the pressure on their schools to resist any effort to infringe upon academic freedom.

The proposed deal with the Trump administration requires that universities abolish institutions on ca

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