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Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to sign on to the “ Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education ,” which would mandate sweeping changes across campus in exchange for preferential treatment on federal funding.

MIT is the first of the nine universities invited to join the compact to publicly reject the proposal that has ignited fierce pushback from other higher ed leaders, faculty and experts who see the document as a way to strip institutions of their autonomy. The Trump administration also asked Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Arizona, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, University of Texa

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